Last year there were more sales of electronic books as printed books. On 5 March this year, Barnes & Noble, the largest chain the world of bookstores, purchased online e-book vendor, Fictionwise. president of the BN, William J. Linch said: "The market has not been the policy to date. We think it is an area of great growth in the future. "
Many people like to buy and read electronic books and magazines through electronic lightweight handheld readers today. Several companies have come up with innovative, independent e-book readers, such as Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Hanlin eReader (aka Endless Ideas Bebook), etc., these gadgets can lead to elegant fine people of the time of reading. Let's look at some of these readers in this article.
E-books and E-Journals: How do they work?
E-books can be of two types: those that can be read on a computer and those requiring special equipment to read. There are various electronic book formats, including Adobe PDF, Microsoft LIT, Palm PDB, etc. In order to buy an e-book, go to line e-book seller, payment and registration of your reader for DRM (Digital Rights Management) and download e-book reader registered. Since only the log book and – Reader can read this e-book, the author and publisher are protected from piracy. The digital copy not possible with DRM protection.
Popular E-Books
There are many reading devices on the market, and most of them work with electronic paper technology from E Ink Corporation.
In 2008, an application for the Apple iPhone for reading electronic books iPhone is an increase in sales (even more than the total sales of Amazon Kindle). The iPhone made popular devices to read e-books. But in this article, we looking only specialized e-book readers.
1. Amazon Kindle
Perhaps the most popular e-book readers, Amazon Kindle had total sales of 380,000 units in 2008 in the U.S. alone. Kindle is now in the next generation with the advent of Amazon Kindle 2, Kindle DX this year (DX is out of stock). K-DX offers native PDF support, has an iPhone and the accelerometer which changes the screen orientation when turning the reader and is better suited for reading electronic versions of newspapers, magazines and books in. With the ability to keep thousands of electronic books in the storage and easy access to online store Amazon e-book, Kindle is probably the first choice of anyone looking for an independent reader e-book.
The screen is normal, readable paper. Kindle has wireless capabilities to access the online bookstore and magazine store in the Amazon. Kindle 2 has a 600 x 800 (6 inch) display. You can receive books through the Sprint high-speed 3G network, available nationwide. The formats are format owned by Amazon, AZW (DRM restricted), PRC, TXT, PDF and (some of these formats may need to be converted to AZW).
2. Sony Reader
Sony Digital Book Reader is the popular e-book reader from Sony, and there have been three editions of this-PRS-500 PRS-505 and PRS-700.
The reader has an electronic display 600 x 800 pixels of paper (EPD), similar to Kindle and the screen is 8 grayscale levels. PRS-700, edition, unlike other, sports a touch screen. Support e-book formats including BBeB Book (Marlin), TXT, RTF, EPUB, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word (DOC). It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP for images and MP3 and AAC for audio.
3. iRex iLiad
iRex iLiad, like Kindle and Sony Reader, the screen uses electronic paper, and comes in 768 x 1024 (8 inch) resolution. It has 16-screen level gray scale.
Through Wi-Fi, LAN, USB connectivity, or a network with a MyiRex account, you can download e-books to the reader. The e-book formats supported include Adobe PDF, MOBI, PRC, HTML and TXT.
4. Hanlin eReader
Hanlin eReader, known in several brand names around the world such as Bebook Endless Ideas is a popular e-book reader. It has a resolution of 600 x 800, 4-level grayscale. It connects via a USB port.
Unlike other readers mentioned above, this reader supports almost all file formats Popular e-books, Adobe PDF, CHM, DJVU, DOC, EPUB, FB2, HTM, LIT, MOBI, PPT, PRC, RTF, TXT, Wolf. It also supports file formats as ZIP and RAR, image formats like BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and audio format, MP3.
Conclusion
Most of these readers e-books come with revolutionary E Ink technology developed by E Ink Corporation. This is a digital paper display that gives the experience of reading on paper real. With storage space for thousands of electronic books and the ability to maintain battery power for thousands of page turns or several hours, readers e-book can be considered as portable libraries. Because they can connect to some of the network for purchase and download popular fiction and nonfiction Online vendors of e-book can provide a reading experience very well when in a long distance journey.
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