E-book Reader or Tablet?
The electronic book or e-book, talked about for so long has finally become an everyday object and it can view the news in transport as much as reading a novel at night by the light of a lamp.
Considering the success of Amazon's Kindle sold since 2007, U.S. newspaper groups have decided to move to electronic book that would provide a new medium to their publications.
400 000 copies of Kindle have been passed during his first year.
E-book Reader or tablet?
Do we need a eBook reader if we own a tablet PC?
An e-book reader must have three qualities to be used as a paper book, including reading in bed, at night:
- It must be lightweight, so closer to 500 g that 1 kg.
- It does not heat.
- Autonomy must be long.
Although a tablet PC may occasionally serve as eBook reader, they are less suitable for frequent use.
The Nook e-books reader
The Nook Barnes & Noble, available in the U.S. since December 7, has received 60,000 orders within 15 days that followed ...
It has Wi-fi Internet connectivity, a MicroSD port for storage.
Other products
Time Inc.., News Corp.., Conde Nast, Hearst Corp.. and Meredith Corp.. announce a joint venture to develop an electronic device capable of competing with the Kindle.
This device is equipped with color to make the magazinelooking as on paper, it could display video, run games.
Among the magazines are included Times, Cosmopolitan.
The Skiff Reader is a new generation with a screen as wide as a magazine page, a touch screen and high resolution.
Skiff is an affiliate of the Hearst newspaper group in partnership with LG.
Other competitors are the Sony Reader, Cybook, the Digital Reader.
Most e-books support both HTML and PDF, but a specialized format, the ePub is becoming the norm. It encapsulates an XHTML file in a ZIP archive files with different metadata.
More
- Video of the future Vimeo e-Book.
This is a view of the future, what looks like the book of the future that will replace the magazines and newspapers.