According to Sony’s Fujio Noguchi who oversees Sony’s e-book business in the capacity as a deputy president of the Digital Reading Business Division of Sony Electronics Inc., the Japanese consumer electronics giant has no plans to introduce a color e-reader anytime soon simply considering the new Reader is doing exceptionally well in terms of sales, particularly in Sony’s US online store – SonyStyle. As for the Reader Touch Edition, it is the best selling device among their range of e-readers at $299. Sony won’t venture into a color e-reader until existing E-Ink technologies can be brought forward to the future with color included, ruling out other display formats.

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Apple’s iPad will plus double up as an ebook reader, making the Kindle and its once-rivals shake and shudder at their bezels. that potential behemoth of an ebook reader (figuratively speaking) has five large partners to offer composition from, among them are Penguin, Macmillion, Simon & Shuster, HarperCollins and Hachette Book Group. An iBook Store has been created for you to download digital tomes of your choice straight onto the iPad just like the Amazon Kindle. No concept on whether you can import your own books from other libraries or not, but there is the choice of skipping a particularly boring chapter to another one, alongside photo display support for those who prefer a more visual approach to their digital reading habits. Flipping through pages will require you to tap anywhere on the right, and vice versa whether you want to go back a page. Looks like the Kindle will have some real competition on its hands right now, and with the iPad’s multi-faceted capabilities, the Kindle could be at a real disadvantage.

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Netronix is currently working hand in hand with Texas Instruments in order to develop e-ook readers that are powered by the Google Android operating system, where they are looking at by a million units’ worth of shipment sometime next year. These Netronix e-book readers can additionally interoperate with other Android-powered handsets as well as embedded devices for added functionality. Apart from that, Netronix additionally wants to incorporate 3G or 3.5G modules into their e-book readers, transforming so that the digital reading devices can be transformed into personal communications devices as well. Exciting times are ahead of us, eh?

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