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An introduction to readers popular e-book
Last year, there were more sales of electronic books as printed books. On 5 March this year, Barnes & Noble, the world's largest chain of bookstores, purchased online e-book seller, Fictionwise. President BN, William J. Linch said: "The market has been that developed to date. We believe it is an area of tremendous growth in the future."
Many people like to buy and read e-books and e-journals through lightweight portable readers today. Several companies have come up with innovative, independent e-book readers like Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Hanlin eReader (aka Endless Ideas Bebook), etc., these gadgets can make elegant thin people at the time of reading. Let's take a look at some of these readers in this article.
E-books and e-journals: how do work?
E-books can be of two types: those that can be read on a computer and require special devices to read. There are several formats of eBooks, including Adobe PDF, Microsoft LIT, Palm PDB, etc. To purchase an electronic book, you go to an online seller of e-book, pay and register your player with DRM (Digital Rights Management), and download the e-book reader registered. Since only the e-book reader can read this e-book, the author and publisher are protected from piracy. copy digital is not possible with DRM protection.
Popular e-book readers
There are many devices available reading in the market, and most of them work with electronic paper technology from E Ink Corporation.
In 2008, an application for Apple iPhone reading eBooks on the iPhone had a sales increase (even more than the total sales of Amazon Kindle). This made one of the popular iPhone device to read e-books. But in this article, we consider only the specialized e-book readers.
1. Amazon Kindle
Perhaps the most popular e-book reader, Amazon Kindle had total sales of 380,000 units in 2008 in the U.S. only. Kindle is now in the next generation with the arrival of Amazon Kindle 2, Kindle this year DX (DX is already sold out). According to the digital book readers, K-DX provides native support for PDF, has an accelerometer like the iPhone changes the screen orientation when turning the reader is suitable for reading electronic versions of newspapers, magazines and books format. With the ability to keep thousands of electronic books in storage and easy access to online store Amazon e-book, Kindle is probably the first choice for those seeking an independent e-book reader.
The screen is a plain and easy to read. Kindle has wireless capabilities to access the online bookstore and magazine store in the Amazon. Turn 2 has a 600 x 800 (6 inch) screen. You can receive books through the Sprint high-speed 3G network, available nationwide. Supported formats include proprietary format from Amazon AzW (DRM restricted), PRC, TXT and PDF documents (some of these formats can be converted to open AzW).
2. Sony Reader
Sony Reader Digital Book is the popular e-book reader from Sony, and there have been three editions of this-PRS-500 PRS-505 PRS-700.
The reader has a 600 x 800 pixels role electronic display (EPD), similar to Kindle, and the display is 8-level grayscale. PRS-700 edition, unlike other, sports a touch screen. The Supported formats include e-book book BBeB (needle), TXT, RTF, EPUB, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word (DOC). It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG, and BMP images and MP3 and AAC for audio.
3. iRex iLiad
iRex iLiad, similar to the Kindle and Sony Reader, making use of electronic paper display, and comes at 768 x 1024 (8 inch) resolution. It has grayscale display 16 levels.
Through Wi-Fi, LAN, USB connectivity, or network with one count of MyiRex, you can transfer e-books for the reader. Supported formats include e-book in Adobe PDF, MOBI, PRC, HTML, and TXT.
4. Hanlin eReader
Hanlin eReader, known in various brand names around the world as endless Bebook Ideas, is a popular e-book reader. It has a resolution of 600 x 800 display 4 grayscale levels. It connects via a USB port.
Unlike other readers mentioned above, this reader supports nearly all the most popular file formats for eBooks Adobe PDF, CHM, DJVU, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTM, LIT, MOBI, PPT, PRC, RTF, TXT, LOBO. It also supports file formats such as ZIP and RAR, image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and audio format, MP3.
Conclusion
Most of these e-book readers come with the E-Ink revolutionary technology developed by E Ink Corporation. This is a paper display digital, which gives the experience of reading actual paper. With storage space for thousands of electronic books and the ability to maintain battery power for thousands of turns page or several hours, these e-book readers can be considered as mobile libraries. Since they can connect to a network to buy and download the sellers of fiction popular and non-fiction e-books online, can provide a reading experience very comfortable when in a long distance journey.
About the Author
Marco Gustafsson is author of articles on eBook Readers, e-inc technology and electronic books. Discover new dimension of reading here on Digital Book Readers
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