Let’s quickly present the Barnes and Noble Nook Wi-Fi to you. At just $149 this device features the 6 in. E Ink display and a color LCD. It has a 1.3 GB internal memory compared to the current 1 GB common among the other eReaders nevertheless its memory is expanding so no worries right now there. It weighs a bit more as compared to other devices at 11.6 oz, most of the competition are usually way below that at 9 and 8 oz.

There is also a more expensive model costing $199, which adds 3G to the mix. Instantly you can already begin to appreciate that for that price the device is pretty good value for money. Visually the Nook originally is a mixture of two colors, battleship-gray and off-white however if that does not float your boat then you may change it via different tinted backs for people who choose more color in their life. Among Nook’s trademark characteristics is a set of two screens: one is the basic E Ink display screen and the other the LCD color touch display that is Android-powered.

Just like the Kindle, the Nook is a system rather than just a device, efficient at easily browsing and making one-click acquisitions and downloads through Barnes & Noble’s huge store of electronic books, newsprint as well as periodicals. What’s more, your Nook’s Wi-Fi connects automatically to let you read free excerpts from just about any ebook while you’re drinking a latte at your favorite B&N shop. You can also lend or perhaps borrow books for free, for up to 14 days.

Depending upon the book you’re reading, the Nook can show text in around 16 different languages. For travelers, the Nook has an airplane mode that allows you to turn off 3G as well as Wi-Fi while traveling by air, so as not to interfere with navigation equipment. The readability factor of the Nook goes over and above other devices with 16 distinct shades of grey, 3 styles of fonts and 5 different sizes. If we do the statistics there it would certainly be a bunch of options. I’m sure you’ll find one that’s the best fit for you. Also another great way to personalize the device is by installing any photo through USB and set it as the screensaver.

On the downside, it’s a bit slow when it powers up and unlike some other ereaders you can’t rotate the written text…which is ok I guess since a regular publication does not do that yet it’s odd they omitted this option. Net browsing is also quite slow. The touchscreen can also be a mite tough so if you plan to use the virtual keyboard you may find it frustrating. What some people appreciate, because other eBook shops don’t allow it, is you can loan or borrow ebooks with others that own a Nook. Alas it’s a one-time deal so save this for your current bestest friend!

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Amazon recently confirmed that, during the month after the release of their third generation Kindle reader, they sold more Kindle readers than for the same time period following any previous Kindle reader launch. The new Kindle is, not simply in demand, it is the fastest selling Kindle to date. As usual, Amazon did not reveal the exact number of Kindles which were sold, but they did advise that, since the release of the new version of the Kindle, customers have bought more Kindles on Amazon.com and the newly opened Kindle store at Amazon.co.uk combined than any other product.

At the end of July, Amazon announced their new Kindle 3. The latest version packs the same 6″ display into a new slimmed down design which is 21% smaller and 15% lighter. Page turn speed is 20% faster and memory size has been boosted from 2GB to 4GB – sufficient to store 3,500 books. With the Wi-Fi turned off, the battery will now last for a month – even with the Wi-Fi on, a 10 day life is achievable – and the e-ink technology screen has had its contrast improved.

Amazon also introduced an entry level Wi-Fi only model, for customers who don’t anticipate the need for 3G. This sells for $ 139, with the 3G plus Wi-Fi model selling for $ 189. Those prices represent massive reductions on the previous $ 359 Kindle price. It’s a clear sign that the e-book reader market is entering a new phase.

During the first six months of 2010, Amazon sold three times as many Kindle books as they did during the same period of 2009. The number of books available on the Kindle store has now grown to over 670,000 titles – and that doesn’t include the 1.8 million free titles available.

The Kindle continues to be Amazon’s top selling item. It is also the most gifted and most wished for product on Amazon.com and Amazon.co.uk. With the high sales figures of the Kindle and the latest technical improvements, it would be easy to overlook the importance of the launch of the UK Kindle store at Amazon.co.uk. The UK store has opened with 400,000 titles available and could increase international Kindle sales. If it proves to be successful – and early sales returns suggest that this will be the case – then Amazon may well open further Kindle stores in countries like Japan, France and Germany – all of whom have their own “local” Amazon websites.

Whilst Amazon still faces competition from the Apple iPad this doesn’t seem to concern them too much. The difference in price between the Kindle and the iPad is, for the moment at least, large enough to tip the scales in favour of the Kindle for most customers whose chief interest is in reading books. The sale of e-books will become increasingly important as the e-book reader market develops and matures. The fact that Kindle books are outselling iBooks by a ratio of sixty to one speaks volumes.

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This time last year, the e-book reader market was like the Wild West – or maybe the gold rush would be a more appropriate metaphor. Following the huge success which Amazon had achieved with its Kindle reader – first of all with the Kindle 2.0 in February of 2009 and then with the large display DX model in the summer of the same year – a small army of personal electronics firms seemed to be developing, releasing or updating e-book readers of their own in order to grab a share of the new and rapidly developing market.

Sony and Barnes and Noble were working feverishly to get their new readers to market in advance of the 2009 festive season and Plastic Logic, Asus and a number of others were rushing to get their readers released as quickly as they could manage. The Computer Electronics Show (CES), held in Las Vegas in early 2010, had a dedicated e-book reader section for the first time ever. E-book readers were a hot new emerging market.

However, just a few months later, it’s a very different scene. The price of e-book reader hardware has been in free fall. The latest third generation Kindle now has a Wi-Fi only entry level model available for only $ 139 – less than 40% of the $ 359 price which the Kindle 2.0 launched. The price of the Nook reader from Barnes and Noble has also been slashed to just $ 149 – and a further cut before the festive season arrives seems highly likely.

A number of e-book readers which were in development – including Plastic Logic’s Que – have been abandoned. The market seems to be entering a new phase in its development – and whether there is any place in it for pure electronics manufacturers or not is open to debate. The Amazon business model is very well suited to selling lower priced readers and making a profit on the subsequent sales of Kindle books. Barnes and Noble could employ a similar strategy – but whether or not they could make use of economies of scale in the same way that Amazon can is debatable.

Obviously the launch of the Apple iPad has been a major influence in all of this. It’s certain that the price of e-book readers would have trended downwards anyway – but the iPad’s launch certainly hastened things along a bit. However, considering that the third generation Kindles sold out almost immediately after launch – even today customers are facing a three to four week wait for their Kindles to ship – it doesn’t look like the iPad is the long awaited Kindle Killer that it was widely forecast to be.

Apart from the debate about e-ink displays being easier to read on than back-lit screens, there is – for the moment at least – enough daylight between the price of the Kindle and the price of even the entry level iPad to make the Kindle the more attractive option for anyone whose primary interest is reading books. The monthly connection fees for the iPad will also not be an attractive option for some customers.

It does appear that there is ample room in the market for both the Amazon Kindle and the iPad to co-exist – for the foreseeable future at least. Other manufacturers of e-book readers, including big players such as Barnes and Noble and Sony, may well find things tough as hardware prices keep dropping.

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There must have been a lot of internal debate about what to set the price of the Kindle e-book reader at when Amazon released the original way back in November of 2007. The Kindle wasn’t the first e-book reader on the market (not by a long way), but neither was the market mature enough to suggest a clear price point. They also had a variety of different pricing plans that could have worked.

They might have decided to go for a cell phone type of plan with the price of the hardware being heavily subsidised by regular monthly payments over a fixed contract length. Some intermediate arrangement with a charge to download books or surf the web might have also been a viable option. In the end, Amazon decided to charge the full price for the Kindle reader and to have no monthly fee – connection via 3G was included in the $ 359 selling price. Nor was there any fee for downloading Kindle books, it was pretty much an all inclusive package.

The Kindle was pretty well received – Oprah Winfrey declared it to be her “new favourite gadget” – but it didn’t exactly change the world. It was considered to be something of a work in progress – which is exactly what it was. It wasn’t until the launch of the Kindle 2.0 in February of 2009 that the e-book market really exploded. The Kindle 2.0 was also sold for $ 359 and the large display Kindle DX was released in the summer of 2009 with a price tag of $ 489.

The e-book reader market started to grow exponentially and it seemed that every electronic manufacturer had their own e-book reader in development. Companies such as Plastic Logic, Sony, Barnes and Noble, Bookeen and iRex fought to secure their share of the new and fast developing e-book market. The Kindle had a reported 60% share of the e-book reader market and was the standard to which other e-book reader manufacturers needed to aspire. It seemed that any reader which displayed the slightest potential was instantly christened the “Kindle killer” – but, in reality, the Kindle had no real credible competition.

However, the launch of Apple’s iPad changed the scene and, not for the first time, the death of the Kindle was widely predicted. However, and also not for the first time, rumours of the Kindle’s impending demise proved to be premature. The third generation Kindle was released in August of 2010 and sold like hot cakes. Shortly after the Kindle 3 launched Amazon were sold out of the new readers and prospective customers were faced with a four or five week wait before their new readers would ship.

In addition to all the usual good upgrades to the technical spec – more memory, faster page turns, smaller and lighter body, higher contrast screen etc. – Amazon launched a brand new entry level Wi-Fi only Kindle with a price of just $ 139. The price of the 3G plus Wi-Fi model was set at $ 189 – a big drop compared to the $ 359 price. More importantly perhaps, the new Kindles are considerably cheaper than even the entry level iPad – and there’s no monthly connection fee to pay.

Based on the evidence to date, it looks like the Kindle and the iPad can co-exist. Whether the same can be said for other e-book readers must be highly debatable. The big advantage that Amazon enjoys over some other e-book reader manufacturers is the fact that, being a book seller, it will be able to profit from the ongoing sale of e-books. If it wished, it could choose to support the cost of the hardware from e-book sales.

The e-book market is maturing very quickly. It seems obvious that hardware prices have still got some way to fall, and very possibly in the near future. Could we conceivably see Amazon, and maybe Barnes and Noble, making e-book readers available for free in an attempt to lock in future e-book sales? Is it to fanciful to suppose that customers who join Amazon’s premium delivery Prime club or who sign up for an Amazon credit card could find themselves taking receipt of a free, or at least heavily discounted, Kindle reader in the fairly near future? Time will tell.

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Amazon has been an important, quite possibly the most important, player in the development of digital publishing using both their Kindle reader family and their huge library of Kindle books as development and marketing tools. November 2007 saw the launch of the original Kindle. Amazon followed up with the upgraded Kindle 2.0 in February of 2009, and the large display Kindle DX model launched in the summer of 2009.

With a market share of 60% of all e-book readers sold in the USA, the Kindle readers dominated the market. Sony trailed in second place with a still respectable 35% share. Needless to say, other electronics manufacturers quickly saw the potential in the nascent e-book reader market and either developed or updated their own readers.

Manufacturers like Bookeen, Plastic Logic, Sony and Barnes and Noble worked hard to get their share of the rapidly developing market, but the dominance of the Kindle seemed pretty well established, if not unassailable. It was only when Apple launched their iPad that the Kindle faced any credible competition – despite the fact that the two devices were very different and, you would think, aimed at different target markets.

Nevertheless, since the release of the iPad, e-book reader prices have pretty much gone into free fall. The Kindle 2.0, which retailed for $ 359 at its February 2009 launch is now priced at just $ 189. The Kindle DX, which has just had a mini makeover and now sports a new higher contrast screen, has had its price slashed from $ 489 to $ 379. Still a pricey piece of kit, but a lot cheaper than before and also way cheaper than even the entry level iPad (which also has a monthly connection fee associated with it). The price of the Barnes and Noble Nook reader has also dropped to just $ 199.

Whilst the price of e-book readers may be falling, the same cannot be said about the price of the e-books which these devices are used to read. Again, Apple had a hand in this. Apple had, in advance of the launch of the iPad, set up their own book store and negotiated a pricing deal with the major publishing houses which basically allowed them to fix the price of their e-book editions at whatever level they wished. The only rider being that they could not offer the same e-book version at a lower price on any other platform. This effectively put paid to Amazon’s policy of pricing e-books at $ 9.99 or lower and was very popular amongst the publishing companies.

Amazon may have had to abandon their low e-book price policy – but that wasn’t necessarily a disaster for them. Considering the way that Amazon have made it possible to read Kindle books on such a wide variety of different devices – you can use the PC, the Mac, the iPod Touch, the iPhone, the iPad, your Blackberry and any device which runs Android to read Kindle books right now (and no doubt there will be further additions in future) – it must be obvious that Amazon are more interested in book sales than hardware sales. The latest downward price movement for e-book readers and simultaneous price increase for e-books means that they can now sell the hardware for less and make their profit by selling e-books over the life of the hardware. The same will apply for Barnes and Noble and Apple themselves of course.

This trend may tend to favor companies which have a foot in both the book and hardware sales camps. Considering the current number of devices which can be used to read Kindle books, it looks as if Amazon will be a major player in the future of digital publishing for some time to come.

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The Kindle reader rapidly rose to be the top selling item on Amazon. All it takes is a few minutes to review the benefits offered and it is apparent why that has happened. There are a tremendous number of books available for immediate download to the Kindle. You will also be able to read your personal PDF files and receive a large number of periodicals. You can use it almost anywhere in the US, and many other counties as well. There will be no other cables, a computer or software required. The reader will be ready to go right out of the box.

One of the most interesting features is the high quality of text that is provided by the “E ink” technology that uses ink that is electronically displayed. It gives the sense of looking at a page from a book on the six-inch diagonal screen. You will find it does not seem you are reading from a computer screen. There are six different font sizes to choose from.

You will not have the extra hassle of having to find large-print books any longer. All your books can be large print if that is what you want. Images will be bright and have clarity because of the sixteen shades of gray that are used. You can rotate them and enlarge them to full-screen when you want. With the additional ability to access text-based websites, you can keep up with sports scores, reference materials and maps. There is a dictionary built-in and opened instantly when needed.

You can carry a Kindle with you with complete confidence since the battery life has been extended to last up to 2 weeks if you keep the wireless service off. The battery life will extend for one week if the wireless connection is left on. There is a large 2 GB of storage to work with. The text will always be clear because there is no back-lighting used. There will be no glare to strain your eyes no matter where and when you are reading.

The Kindle is designed to be synchronized with computers and hand-held devices. You’ll be able to read on any of the devices and pick up where you left off. The included power adapter and USB cable will enable you to recharge the battery. The USB cable will also allow for easy file transfer of larger files that are downloaded to your computer.

With over a half-million books, nearly 2 million public domain writings, over 50,000 audio books, ebooks and periodicals available, you will build a very impressive personal library. There are free samples for almost all books. If you like it, one click and it can be purchased and downloaded. There is even a text-to-speech function with most books.

The Kindle is designed for long-term use. It only weighs 10 ounces, yet holds up to 1,500 books. If you ever come to a point you need more room, all of your purchases are stored for you and can be re-downloaded. It is very thin, about the thickness of a lead pencil, so it can be held comfortably in one hand. Both sides of the screen have the buttons used to turn the pages.

A Kindle reader will allow you to carry your personal library with you and keep track of where you left off in each book. You will be able to read what you want where you want on a computer or hand-held devices and keep them all in sync. Bookmarks, notations and clips saved will always be kept for your reference. Add some MP3′s for background music and reading will take on a whole new perspective.

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You may have heard about the Amazon Kindle, a device that allows you to read books that have been stored in an electronic format. Because of the way the files are stored on the device, you can carry as many as fifteen hundred books at one time.

The Kindle itself is quite small and light. It certainly is much more portable than a paper book would be. This is great if you are traveling and need to pack light. Instead of taking numerous paper books with you it is very simple to bring a Kindle with you and have all of your books downloaded to it.

You may wonder how it is possible to fit so many books on one of these devices at the same time. Because of the file format in which the books are stored, they take up very little memory. The Kindle can hold more books than any many of the other e-readers can without adding extra memory. Like other e-readers, you can use a series of buttons on the bottom of the device to navigate through your reading list and go directly to the chapter or page that you are looking for.

When the Kindle was first introduced, it was very different than any other electronic book reading method on the market. Other devices such as the iPod allowed you to read books but they were inefficient. Because the displays were back lit, they used up a lot of battery power. As well, the displays were difficult to read under certain light conditions.

It used a display that looked very much like the printed page. This accomplished two goals. The first was to reduce eye strain and the second was to prolong battery life. You could read books on the e-reader in many different light conditions without worrying about glare on your screen.

There are other advantages to the Kindle that have nothing to do with the display. One advantage that many people have enjoyed is the ability to download books wirelessly. Other ebook readers require readers to download books to a computer and then connect their e-readers via a USB cable so that the files could be transferred. With the Kindle, this can be accomplished wirelessly.

Because you do not need to use a computer, you may wonder what happens to titles when you need to make room for them on the reader. It is quite simple. Unlike other digital reading devices, you store your titles in an online library. You can download titles from this online library multiple times, which can be great if you want to read and re-read a particular title.

The Kindle is unique among e-readers because of the range of features it offers. Other e-readers are trying to catch up by offering wireless connectivity and similar displays to that of the Kindle but the original still remains the benchmark as far as electronic readers are concerned.

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A highly efficient colour e-reader that fully facilitates video, internet browsing as well as smartphone display monitors was shown by Dutch scientists. Even though this technology will not be available for at least a year the ramifications might be wide spread.

The prototype uses display screen technology dependant upon some very aged science which the manufacturers say is up to 4 times more energy efficient compared to LCD monitors. This may help many industrial sectors reduce the electricity consumption on several appliances. The eco-friendly credentials are obvious and with the breakthrough of far more alternative energy products it is reasonable to say that companies coming from around the world will be seeking to increase efficiency in a number of different ways.

When established in the e-reader market, Dutch firm Liquavista hope to see the screens incorporated directly into an array of additional products in the future.

It is a fact that a number of analysts are asking whether consumers are going to be tempted by these enviromentally friendly devices. Even so it’ll be producers making the decisions and whilst buyers may not be influenced from an environmental point of view the higher electricity charges which will surely be widespread within the not too distant future most likely will.

Liquavista stated it expects the initial e-readers making use of the “electrowetting” technologies to be presented by the middle of 2011 and the technology to then end up a lot more wide-spread.

“You certainly might see this technology inside your smart phone, in your web tablet, inside your PC

“However ultimately you could see it in your house as your tv monitor in your lounge.

Electrowetting has long been known about for more than a century however is just today getting perfected by numerous companies, for example, to create auto-focus lenses for cameras.

This involves little electrical charges relocating coloured oil within every pixel.

Most up to date e-readers make use of e-ink technologies which is tiny black and white beads that are manipulated with electric charges.

Fresh technology once again shifts the way in which we make use of mobile broadband currently its colour e-readers down the road well who knows.