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A variety of technologies relevant to electronic paper applications that are currently being developed, which allow for completely new products or the introduction of electronic functionality in products where it was previously unavailable. This new report covers the relevant technologies, such as electrophoretic, electrochromic & electrowetting displays, cholesteric LCDs and other bistable technologies. Discover the main developers of these technologies and a detailed breakdown of the market by technology or application, with forecasts to 2019.

The commercial success of the Amazon Kindle and the lesser yet still quite substantial uptake of e-book readers such as the iRex iLIad or the SONY PRS family have sparked up a large interest in electronic paper technologies.Electronic paper is a display technology designed to mimic the appearance of ordinary ink on paper. Unlike conventional flat panel displays, it doesn’t require a backlight to illuminate its pixels as it reflects light like paper does and can hold text and images indefinitely without drawing power.Out of the technologies that could be suitable for electronic paper applications, electrophoretic displays are seeing the strongest growth. Although currently not available in full colour (but available in grayscale), electrophoretic displays found the perfect application in the development of e-book readers as, books are also black and white. Other technologies are also being used in the development of e-book readers and are covered in this report, like the FUJITSU color reader that utilizes cholesteric LCD technology by KENT displays. Electrochromic or electrowetting displays, although not yet utilized are possible candidates for applications that will be commercialized in the near future. Several other products that are either already available or in the process of becoming available are using technologies such as those by TRED or Nemoptic. The companies that develop them are playing on the strengths of these technologies and hence focus on different applications. These would range from small size such as smart card displays and point of purchase labels to larger size ones such as billboards, posters and signage, train station displays etc. How much more will the eBook reader market grow? When will eBook readers be available in full colour and when will the flexible versions reach the market? Which technologies will gain the biggest market share and which products will become popular with consumers in the next few years? Find out all about the projected market growth and overall penetration of electronic paper technologies in this new report.

 

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Among many hi tech gadgets, the hottest trend of buying electronic gift set is a portable reader in 2010. This is a wireless reading device that can read ebooks any time any where. Right now, there are more and more players coming into these markets for e.g Samsung to compete with the innovator leaders like Amazon , Sony and Barnes. The fierce battle among these strong players as well as new entry players like Samsung can be seen during the recent Las Vegas CES Show in Jan 2010. All are trying to compete to fight for a market share.  To consumers like you and me, there will be more advantages than disadvantages for a spoilt of wider choices, better pricing and product features selection. However, buying a portable reader  is not as simple as buying a piece of electronic device. You need to consider various aspects before committing to your desired model.

Here are the essential pointers on choosing the right portable Ebook reader of your choice.

1. Choose the portable reader with appropriate display size. A rule of thumb is must be at least 6″inch wide. Often, it is too small a display that will make your reading experience get worse after some time.

2. You can often find good deals online and get your desired portable ebook reader.

3. Portable Reader will imply the need for wireless 3G technology. With 3G, you can just read freely any time any where.

4. You may want to get the portable reader with a much larger capacity to store as many Ebooks as possible.

5. It should also support the largest assortment of compatible formats for Ebooks, newspapers, magazines, Blogs and articles. A portable book reader which does not support a wide of data formats and e-media types will not be in great demand.

6. Advanced text to speech capabilities will enable some portable ebook readers to quantum leap others.

7. Thin profile portable reader will be getting more and more popular. Its weight is also another important consideration.

8. You may need a long battery lifespan for your portable reader for continual usage without main powers. Typically, the portable reader should at least support 4-5 days of continual usage.

9. Portable Readers which can support a wider choice of fanciful accessories can allow the owner to mix and match at different times. This creates fun in owning such portable reader apart of just using it to read Ebooks.

It is definitely no doubt to say the Latest Kindle Reader being the most popular portable Ebook reader with several hundreds of thousands users. If cost is not a critical factor, i will recommend Kindle DX with 9.7″ display size and extra features like rotational display.

You can certainly join the ever growing list of happy users for the Latest Kindle Reader. The user experience is simply awesome.

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2010 comes, and the economy is just beginning to stabilize and the pace of recovery is yet uncertain. At this point, many companies launch novel category of devices. Will they convince consumers to open their pocket?

1.2010 begins with tablet revolution

Size is everything in computing these days. Netbooks — those 8- to 10-inch dumbed-down laptops — were big news in 2009. This year, they may be eclipsed by an abundance of other midsize computing device .

Call it a “slate” or call it a “tablet,” the technology world is suddenly awash with a novel category of mobile devices seeking to grab the spotlight from a hugely anticipated product launch by Apple Inc on January 27, followed by Hewlett-Packard Co, Dell Inc, Motorola Inc and Lenovo Group Ltd who show off thin, touch screen computing devices at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

The tablet phenomenon is an opportunity for these companies, but whether it can open consumers’ purse is uncertain.

2. E-readers are growing in popularity,

Heard of the Amazon Kindle? The Barnes & Noble Nook?  The Sony Reader?

All of these e-readers — portable devices that let readers consume digital books without the eye strain caused by computer monitors.

Different from tablet’s uncertain future, E-reader is one of the best sellers during holiday season. Sales of Amazon Kindle surpassed physical book sales on the holiday for the first time.

3. 3D TV, TV makers’ potential pain

Television manufacturers are banking on 3D TVs for their next sales boost, with sets capable of adding that extra visual dimension expected to hit U.S. store shelves in force by the middle of 2010.

Top TV makers including Sony Corp, Panasonic Corp, LC Electronics Inc and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd features 3D screen advances at the Consumer Electronics Show, hoping the new technology will be as big a boost for the industry as the transition to color TVs from black and white, but many consumers have only just unboxed new high-definition television screens. They may be unwilling to spend on upgrading again soo.

4.  New members in smartphone market.

Google is coming at the mobile industry with Nexus One. The Nexus One was built by Taiwanese electronics manufacturer HTC. Google has called the Nexus One a super phone, no doubt to set the device apart from the other players, including the BlackBerry and Apple’s iPhone. At the moment, the Nexus One is only available in the US but will be sold in Europe, Hong Kong and Singapore in the spring through Vodafone.

Lenovo Group Ltd is also wading into the smartphone market with a thin, touch screen device based on Google Inc’s Android operating system. The world’s No. 4 personal computer maker announced LePhone, which will be launched this year in China, also you check the upodating news on EBsilk.com, Lenovo’s home base, where it is the PC market leader.

Kobo is a global ereading service for smartphones, desktops, ereaders and any other device consumers use for reading. Kobo’s vision is to deliver any book on any device. Kobo features over 2 million ebooks, including classics and bestsellers.
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E-readers have been growing in popularity since the emergence of the e-reader around 2006 from Sony. A lot of versions of ebook readers/electronic readers or simply  put, e readers are returning out there each day. An e-reader is an electronic reading device that is used to display electronic books.

A Personal Knowledge Assistant (PDA) will also display text on a screen and, in theory, can be used to show e-books, however will not have the benefit of the electronic ink show sort of a true e-reader.  It is the most well liked product for 2010!

E-readers are very compact, most having a 5 to six-inch display. Here are a number of the various advantages of e-readers over arduous copy books:.One e-book reader with many books installed is convenient to carry with you than the particular book in printed    format. Most e readers have the capability to carry tons of books.· An assortment of e-books will not require storage space. There’s no need to fill a area stuffed with bookshelves.· You can regulate the style of font and therefore the font size to something that creates reading easier for you.· Depending on which device you have got, an e-reader will be easily scan in low lightweight or maybe in the dark.· Depending on the model of e-reader, e-books will be converted to audio books.· When you switch on your e-reader, it will open to the last page of the book you were reading.· You will be able to highlight or annotate an e-book in an exceedingly manner that does not permanently alter it.· You’ll be able to download e-books to ebook readers therefore that you do not have to hold the e-book with you as well.· An e-book cannot move out of print.

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If you’re considering buying an e-reader, you ought to consider that the two most successful brands of ebook readers available are the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader.

Amazon has just released the Kindle 2, that has the text-to-speech feature mentioned earlier, allowing the book to be scan aloud. It additionally encompasses a simple internet browser.

Sony has 3 completely different versions. The Sony Reader is compatible with both PC and Mac, allowing you to download books purchased online.

Barnes & Noble recently joined the lineup with its dual screen / Color title Nook ebook reader. Alternative brands of e-readers accessible are BeBook, Fujitsu FLEPia, Ectaco jetBook, Hanlin eReader, iRex ILiad, Foxit eSlick Reader.

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Publishers made 2009 the year of the concept newspaper and magazine. Time Inc. teamed up with a the company, the Wonder Factory, to create a fun concept video of the Sports Illustrated of the future. Then there was another concept video from the Bonnier Group, a Swedish media company, which went a step further and moved the words and images off a screen and onto a table, allowing you to flick, drag and scroll in thin air.

There is, however, one problem with all of these wonderful and creative mock-ups: After you watch the videos and imagine what a device like this might offer, you are left with nothing more than a memory of a fancy concept. Yes, they are beautifully presented, but they are mostly pie-in-the-sky ideas. Until someone actually creates the hardware to run these experiences, concepts like that in the Bonnier Group video are about as realistic as those in a video about time travel or flying cars.

It’s important to understand how difficult these devices will be to produce, especially if done right. You can read an earlier Bits post that outlined five reasons why tablets have flopped.

There are major hardware limitations with a real tablet. E-readers like the Kindle from Amazon and the Reader from Sony use E Ink for longer battery life and ease of reading. To make similar devices with a fully immersive color screen, you face problems with battery power, operating systems, price and a grab bag of other technical challenges. An affordable 10-inch screen capable of streaming video, with full interaction and a constant Web connection is going to require a power outlet every two hours.

The Apple Tablet A lot of the concept videos and mock-ups floating around the Web can be likened to publishers sounding a mating call to Apple. They want a device. And although laptop and mobile manufacturers like Dell, Sony and Hewlett-Packard have long known about the consumer yearnings for such a product, they seem to be waiting for apple to innovate and change the way we read magazines, newspapers, blogs and books

Like almost all the people covering technology, I have no doubt that Apple will release a tabletlike device in 2010; there are too many signs that point in this direction. Let’s put all the rumors aside for a moment and look at the facts. There’s the endless chain of patents, as Brad Stone reported in The New York Times in late September on the rehiring of Michael Tchao, who worked on the Apple Newton. I’ve had many discussions with publishers and content creators that sustain my suspicions.

But the icing on the cake comes from a current senior employee inside Apple. When one of my colleagues here asked if the rumors of the Apple tablet were true, and when we could expect such a device, the response from his source was, “I can’t really say anything, but, let’s just say Steve is extremely happy with the new tablet.”

Yet another recently departed Apple employee tipped me: “You will be very surprised how you interact with the new tablet.”

A former Apple employee, whose name appears on numerous Apple patents, worked on an Apple tablet five years ago and recently told me when the first version of the tablet was shelved by Steve Jobs, a lot of the technology made it into other devices. He explained that components of these early stage concepts are already out in the marketplace. If you have an i Phone, for example, you’re carrying around a mini version of an early Apple tablet. He also says that one of the barriers to producing the early tablets was the lack of software. The success of the App Store and the eagerness of the publishers show that this won’t be a problem for any new devices.

Other Contenders Microsoft is another company to watch through 2010 as a potential contender in the tablet marketplace. Senior Microsoft executives have been talking to publishing companies over the past few months, showing off mock-ups of the dual-screened Courier tablet device, first reported by Gizmodo in late September.

The JooJoo, formerly the Crunchpad, had the most promise for an inexpensive consumer tablet. The original price of the JooJoo was going to be $200, but it is now being offered for $500. When Wired’s Gadget Lab got a hands-on session with the JooJoo it had this to say: “Though it seems to have the hardware design and form factor right, the list of what it can’t do, for now, outweighs what it can.”

The JooJoo was a prime example of the difficulty that device manufacturers face trying to make a new tabletlike experience.

It’s clear from the public excitement and positive feedback to these videos, prototypes and concepts that people really want a tablet. I know I do.

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Cuddling up with the NookIn basic substantive ways the Nook operates like other e-readers already on the market, such as the Kindle, its successor, the Kindle 2, and Kindle DX; and Sony’s Touch Edition, Daily Edition, and Pocket Edition Readers. They all use the grayscale E Ink display and have similar fundamental capabilities, although each does have its own particular bells and whistles. What sets the Nook apart is the first-on-the-market full-color e-reader touch screen, which eliminates the need for a keyboard and comprises one-third of its unique front side, which also includes a display screen surrounded by a frame with a user-friendly backward and forward button on each side. The Nook runs Google’s Android OS; and it is the first e-reader to offer an electronic loan option called LendMe, which allows one Nook user to Borrow parts of another user’s content for up to two weeks.Early reviewers of the Nook reported being disappointed in the device’s sluggishness and lack of an intuitive user interface, but they expect any kinks in the software and/or hardware to eventually be worked out, making the Nook a gadget lover’s favorite toy.Nook sales will receive a powerful boost from the e-reader’s availability to customers visiting any of the almost-800 bricks-and-mortar Barnes & Noble bookstores in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, the new device allows users to download the half-million titles in the Google Books library. This is typical for advanced ebook readers and according to the article “Is the Future of Books in Mobile EBook Reading”, apart from the range of books offered by Amazon for its Kindle, the Sony Reader also allows you access to a large library of books in the public domain that are therefore Free to download (Digital Book Readers). The Nook sells for $259.The Reader: point, shoot, and listenThe e-reader developed by Intel is in a class by itself. Simply called the “Reader,” the handheld device is the result of the collaboration of a long-time dyslexic – and frustrated – Intel employee, Intel’s Health division, and health care industry experts. Like its name, the Reader’s concept is also simple: It photographs labels, recipes, printed instructions, signs, flip chart pages, menus, memos, receipts and other smaller print sources, converts the printed text to digital text, then instantly converts the digital text to speech playback for reading-disabled or blind users and also to an over-sized digital display for low-vision users. The user can wear a headset in public places to avoid feeling conspicuous.The Reader, in turn, has spawned Intel’s Portable Capture Station to enable Reader users to store larger amounts of texts such as chapters from a book or entire books, newspapers, periodicals and lengthy documents. The Portable Capture Station fits into what resembles a small suitcase, and can be set up on a counter or table, and, with the Reader locked into place, hold newspaper and magazine pages and other large documents which the Reader’s camera can then photograph. Although the Reader’s price tag of about $1,500 is prohibitive to most individuals, the federal government makes funds available to the states so they can offer low-cost loans to those with disabilities for the purchase of assistive technologies. In addition, the No Child Left Behind Act provides grants and loans to schools so they can purchase assistive technologies for their students who require them for scholastic achievement. Intel works with several associations including the Council for Exceptional Children, the National Center for Learning Disabilities and the National Federation of the Blind to make the Reader available where it is needed, and the Reader has been endorsed by the International Dyslexia Association as an important teaching tool. The Reader is available through a limited number of retailers, which are listed on Intel’s corporate website and include CTL, Don Johnston Incorporated, GTSI, Howard Technology Solutions and HumanWare.

There is no doubt that eBook readers are continuing to increase in popularity, although it is believed by many that sales will settle to a background level as most potential users wait for the technology to improve. Although many would like the convenience of an eBook reader and the capability of loading a library of books into one machine, they prefer to wait for improvements in both the e-ink and e-paper technology, and also in the quality of the eReaders. Many feel that if the Kindle is the best there is then they would rather wait. However, they might perhaps not be waiting too long, because many businesses that believed that portable eBook readers would have a niche clientele at best are now developing their own versions of a technology that is proving to have an unexpectedly large demand. It looks like sales of eReaders are going to rocket in 2010; that is if the bubbling activity in sales and development planned for the year is anything to go by. It seems that many of the problems that consumers have with eBooks and their readers are being addressed, and that development is not only being restricted just to the production of bigger and better machines, but also to new cutting edge technology. So what’s in store for you if you are currently considering the pros and cons of eReaders against the real thing?The devices themselves are becoming increasingly more sophisticated, with companies such as Plastic Logic and Barnes and Noble entering the arena. The latter has just unveiled its ‘Nook’, which with its multitouch color screen looks hot enough to knock the Kindle of its pedestal. Plastic Logic is entering the market with a business-oriented eReader with 3G connectivity.The Plastic Logic proReader will be shown to the public at the Consumer Electronics Show on 7th January, 2010 in Las Vegas. With its 8.5 x 11 inch touchscreen, the QUE is the first true business eReader, enabling users to read PDF, Excel, Word and PowerPoint files. As it was described in the article “The QUE e-Reader: The New Kid on the Block”, the screen is not only shatterproof, but also capacitive without any loss in sensitivity that such layered screens often show (Digital Book Readers). “The QUE proReader enhances business performance and gives you a competitive edge,” according to Plastic Logic’s CEO, Richard Archuleta.In a market currently dominated by Amazon’s Kindle, the two computer giants, Apple and Microsoft, are said to be working separately on a multifunctional tablet device that will also offer computer and multimedia functions to their customers. Sony are also rapidly improving their eReader range and the new IREX DR800SD eBook reader goes some way towards helping with the size problem with its 8.1 inch screen. Many potential users have been put off by the screen size of the earlier products and these new 8 inch+ products are beginning to look very attractive to them. However, apart from increasing wireless connectivity and larger screen sizes, what else should we be looking for in 2010? Screen size has not been the only problem with newspapers, although some of these will be resolved by 3G technology providing the ability to update quickly without the need for a hard connection. In fact, the concept of digital newspapers is an attractive one to many people, and it is certainly environmentally friendly. Add to that the saving in printing and distribution costs and it is little wonder that many of the larger newspapers are considering trials based upon a 3G and digital subscription model. Future hardware could involve thin, rollable screens that would convert a large number of people who currently prefer magazine and tabloid formatting. However, given that news is freely available online, the e-News experience would have to offer something special over and above just what can be found on any laptop or palm computer.Perhaps the new product being developed by Asus might meet the needs of everybody. This eReader is said to have twin color touchscreens that open up just like a hardback book, thus meeting one of the complaints that reading eBook readers with one page open at a time detracts from the reading experience. The eReader will also have a speaker, microphone and webcam, thus enabling Skype videocalls. In fact, Amazon had better shape up because word has it that the Asus will cost less than the Kindle, and with all the extra features, is liable to jump ahead of it in sales. 2010 might see a massive sea-shift in popularity, particularly if Amazon and Seiko have been resting on their laurels a bit. There is no time for that anymore because the next 12 months will see a massive surge in both R&D and in developments on existing products. Another of the gripes of genuine book lovers is the appearance of the print. E-ink has gone a long way towards solving this problem, and the continuing development of both ink and e-paper technology by companies other than just Prime View International will lead to improvements in the appearance of eBook reader text and also in prices for the equipment. Early 2010 will bring more competition in this technology that will benefit customers’ pockets and their reading experience. As the popularity of such devices continues to grow, computer and cell phone manufacturers will offer their own equivalents, based on 3G technology and utilising the best e-ink and e-paper technology available to them. Devices will become larger, though still portable, which will involve rollable screens commensurate with the restriction in screen size of portable devices. An increasing number of devices will offer touchscreen throughout 2010, although color screens will not likely be generally available until the year after. You will also be seeing stores setting aside space just for eBook readers and associated technology. To date, such equipment has been hidden among other miscellaneous electronic applications, but it is now being recognized as a mainstream technology deserving its own promotions. Finally, don’t forget Asia! 2010 will also likely see a significant increase in inexpensive eBook readers from China, Taiwan and other Asian countries. However, it will be the screen and ink technology, and also the range of books, magazines, and eventually newspapers available to users that will ultimately distinguish between those eReaders that sell and those that don’t.