eBooks Readers are truly gaining traction in digital publishing. It lends itself to having your books, magazines and newspapers in a digital format. These eBooks are great for your kids. Weather they are reading books like “The Magician’s Elephant” or the “New York Times” there is something for almost everyone. I think that eBooks are best for college students. Especially, if text book publishers start publishing books for the eBook format.
There is a new eBook Reader on the block – the Nook. The Barnes & Noble Nook is the first eBook Reader that runs Android. It has a unique feature – LendMe. This is where you can lend your purchased eBooks with other Nook owners, for 14 days. You will also be able to use LendMe as an application on the iPhone, iPod Touch, Mac and Windows PC’s.
Quick details:
- Manufacture: Barnes & Noble
- OS: Android
- Common Formats: ePub, Mobipocket/Kindle, PDF, eReader, HTML, Plain text and TEI Lite
- Free Sources: Project Gutenberg, Google Books, Feedbooks and Bookglutton
- Paid Sources: Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble and Fictionwise
- Radio: WiFi and AT&T 3G
- Display: E Ink; with smaller color touchscreen (bottom) that serves as a touchscreen
- Release Date: November 30, 2009; can pre-order now
- Size: 6″, 800 x 600
- Cost: $259.00
To keep thing in perspective, the rumors are flying wild about what’s coming in 2010. We hear that Apple will be coming out with the iTablet and Microsoft will be coming out with the Courier. Now for the sake of simplicity the iTablet and the Courier are not eReader’s. They are tablet PC’s. We will be covering these products to some extent in separate posts.
