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An e-book reader, also called an e-book device or e-reader, is a portable electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital books and periodicals.

An e-book reader is similar in form to a tablet computer. A tablet computer typically has a faster screen capable of higher refresh rates which makes them more suitable for interaction. The main advantages of e-book readers are better readability of their screens especially in bright sunlight and longer battery life. This is achieved by using electronic paper technology to display content to readers.

This book is your ultimate resource for E-book readers. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, analysis, background and everything you need to know.

In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about E-book readers right away, covering: E-book, Comparison of e-book readers, 4FFF N618, Blio, COOL-ER, CVS Lookbook, Digital Reader 1000, Digital Reader DR800SG, E Ink, E Ink Corporation, EGriver, Electronic paper, Elonex ebook, EnTourage eDGe, Pocket eDGe, EPUB, ESlick, FLEPia, Gyricon, Hanlin eReader, ILiad, Iriver Story, Kobo eReader, Koobits, Liquavista, List of E-book software, Plastic Logic, PocketBook eReader, SoftBook, Sony LIBRIé EBR-1000EP, Sony Reader, Wattpad, Wink e-book reader, Wizpac txtr, Yudu Media, Alex eReader, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Nook Color, Cruz (Tablet), Cybook Gen1, Cybook Gen3, Cybook Opus, EClicto, ECTACO jetBook, ECTACO jetBook Lite, Franklin eBookMan, IScroll, Samsung Papyrus, Electronic publishing, Accordance, Adobe Content Server, BBeB, Bible Analyzer, Biblical software, Billboard Greece, Comparison of e-book formats, Digital edition, E-Sword, Electronic article, Electronic journal, Electronic media, EPrint, Exact Editions, Flat World Knowledge, Foreign Policy Journal, Gale (publisher), Gdan´skie Wydawnictwo Os´wiatowe, Go Bible, HighWire Press, Idiomag, International Digital Publishing Forum, Lexcycle, Logos Bible Software, Los Angeles Review of Books, Maney Publishing, Matchless Magazine, MediaCommons, Metadata publishing, Microsoft Reader, MyBible, Mygazines, Networked book, Olive Tree Bible Software, Online artwork proofing, feedback, review and approval tool, Online Bible, Online book, Online magazine, Gossip Lanka News, Online newspaper, Online proofing, OPDS, Open access (publishing), Open Scripture Information Standard, OpenReader Consortium, Overlay journal, The Palestine Telegraph, Palm Bible Plus, Poduniversal, PR-e-Sense, Prime Point Foundation, QuickVerse, Rob Redding, Reflowable document, Renaissance E Books, Inc., Safari Books Online, SciELO, Semantic publishing, Spiegel Online, STEP Library, The SWORD Project, SwordSearcher, Theological Markup Language, Three Stages of Online News Content, Webnovela, Webtoon, WordGenius, WORDsearch, Zefania XML, Zygote in My Coffee, Coffee Break (book)

This book explains in-depth the real drivers and workings of E-book readers. It reduces the risk of your technology, time and resources investment decisions by enabling you to compare your understanding of E-book readers with the objectivity of experienced professionals.

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Publié par	Emereo Publishing
Date de parution	24 octobre 2012
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EAN13	9781743045367
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Articles E-book Comparison of e-book readers 4FFF N618 Blio COOL-ER CVS Lookbook Digital Reader 1000 Digital Reader DR800SG E Ink E Ink Corporation EGriver Electronic paper Elonex ebook EnTourage eDGe Pocket eDGe EPUB eSlick FLEPia Gyricon Hanlin eReader iLiad iriver Story Kobo eReader Koobits Liquavista List of E-book software Plastic Logic PocketBook eReader SoftBook Sony LIBRIé EBR-1000EP Sony Reader Wattpad Wink e-book reader Wizpac txtr

1 9 20 23 24 25 26 28 29 32 33 36 45 46 48 50 61 63 64 65 67 71 72 74 76 77 80 82 88 90 92 102 104 105

Yudu Media Alex eReader Amazon Kindle Barnes & Noble Nook Nook Color Cruz (Tablet) Cybook Gen1 Cybook Gen3 Cybook Opus eClicto ECTACO jetBook ECTACO jetBook Lite

Franklin eBookMan IScroll Samsung Papyrus Electronic publishing Accordance Adobe Content Server BBeB Bible Analyzer Biblical software Billboard Greece Comparison of e-book formats Digital edition e-Sword Electronic article Electronic journal Electronic media EPrint Exact Editions Flat World Knowledge Foreign Policy Journal Gale (publisher) Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Oświatowe Go Bible HighWire Press Idiomag International Digital Publishing Forum

106 109 111 124 129 133 135 136 138 141 142 145 146 147 148 148 150 153 154 155 157 162 164 177 179 185 186

187 191 193 195 208 210 213 215 219 221 222

Lexcycle Logos Bible Software Los Angeles Review of Books Maney Publishing Matchless Magazine MediaCommons Metadata publishing Microsoft Reader MyBible Mygazines

Networked book

Olive Tree Bible Software

Online artwork proofing, feedback, review and approval tool

Online Bible Online book Online magazine Gossip Lanka News Online newspaper Online proofing OPDS Open access (publishing) Open Scripture Information Standard OpenReader Consortium Overlay journal The Palestine Telegraph Palm Bible Plus

Poduniversal PR-e-Sense Prime Point Foundation QuickVerse Rob Redding Reflowable document Renaissance E Books, Inc. Safari Books Online SciELO Semantic publishing Spiegel Online

STEP Library

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271 273 277 280 282 282 285 286 286 287 288 291 293

The SWORD Project SwordSearcher Theological Markup Language Three Stages of Online News Content Webnovela Webtoon WordGenius WORDsearch Zefania XML Zygote in My Coffee Coffee Break (book)

References Article Sources and Contributors Image Sources, Licenses and Contributors

Article Licenses License

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E-book

Anelectronic book(alsoe-book,ebook,digital book) is a book-length publication in digital form, consisting of text, images, or both, and produced on, published through, and readable on computers [1] or other electronic devices. Sometimes the equivalent of a conventional printed book, e-books can also be born digital. The Oxford Dictionary of Englishdefines the e-book as "an electronic [2] version of a printed book," but e-books can and do exist without any printed equivalent. E-books are usually read on dedicated hardware devices known ase-Readersore-book devices. Personal computers and some cell phones can also be used to read e-books.

History

Among the earliest general e-books were those inProject Gutenberg, in 1971. One early e-book implementation was the desktop prototype for a proposed notebook computer, theDynabook,in the 1970s at PARC: a general-purpose portable personal computer capable of [3] displaying books for reading.

Early e-books were generally written for specialty areas and a limited audience, meant to be read only by small and devoted interest groups. The scope of the subject matter of these e-books included technical manuals for hardware, manufacturing techniques and other subjects. In the 1990s, the general availability of the Internet made transferring electronic files much easier, including e-books.

A user viewing an electronic page on a prototype OLPC

Numerous e-book formats, view comparison of e-book formats, emerged and proliferated, some supported by major software Amazon Kindle 2 companies such as Adobe with its PDF format, and others supported by independent and open-source programmers. Multiple readers followed multiple formats, most of them specializing in only one format, and thereby fragmenting the e-book market even more. Due to exclusiveness and limited readerships of e-books, the fractured market of independents and specialty authors lacked consensus regarding a standard for packaging and selling e-books. In 2010 e-books continued to gain in their own underground markets. Many e-book publishers began distributing books that were in the public domain. At the same time, authors with books that were not accepted by publishers offered their works online so they could be seen by others. Unofficial (and occasionally unauthorized) catalogs of books became [4] available over the web, and sites devoted to e-books began disseminating information about e-books to the public.

[5] U.S. Libraries began providing free e-books to the public in 1998 through their web sites and associated services, although the e-books were primarily scholarly, technical or professional in nature, and could not be downloaded. In 2003, libraries began offering free downloadable popular fiction and non-fiction e-books to the public, launching an [6] e-book lending model that worked much more successfully for public libraries. The number of library e-book distributors and lending models continued to increase over the next few years. In 2010, a Public Library Funding and [7] [8] Technology Access Study found that 66% of public libraries in the U.S. were offering e-books, and a large movement in the library industry began seriously examining the issues related to lending e-books, acknowledging a [9] tipping point of broad e-book usage.

E-book

As of 2009, new marketing models for e-books were being developed and dedicated reading hardware was produced. E-books (as opposed to ebook readers) have yet to achieve global distribution. In the United States, as of September [10] 2009, the Amazon Kindle model and Sony's PRS-500 were the dominant e-reading devices. By March 2010, [11] some reported that the Barnes & Noble Nook may be selling more units than the Kindle. On January 27, 2010 [12] Apple Inc. launched a multi-function device called the iPad and announced agreements with five of the six largest [13] publishers that would allow Apple to distribute e-books. However, many publishers and authors have not [14] endorsed the concept of electronic publishing, citing issues with demand, piracy and proprietary devices. In July 2010, online bookseller Amazon.com reported sales of ebooks for its proprietary Kindle outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever during the second quarter of 2010, saying it sold 140 e-books for every 100 [15] hardcover books, including hardcovers for which there was no digital edition. By January 2011, ebook sales at [16] Amazon had surpassed its paperback sales. In the overall U.S. market, paperback book sales are still much larger than either hardcover or e-book; the American Publishing Association estimated e-books represented 8.5% of sales [17] as of mid-2010. In Canada, the option of ebook publishing took a higher profile when the novel,The Sentimentalists, won the prestigious national Giller Prize. Owing to the small scale of the novel's independent publisher, the book was initially not widely available in printed form, but the ebook edition had no such problems [18] with it becoming the top-selling title for Kobo devices.

Timeline 1971 • Michael S. Hart launchesProject Gutenberg. 1985–1992 • Robert Stein starts Voyager Company Expanded Books and books on CD-ROM. 1992 • Charles Stack's Book Stacks Unlimited begins selling new physical books online. 1993 • Zahur Klemath Zapata develops the first software to read digital books. Digital book version 1 and the first digital book is publishedOn Murder Considered as one of the Fine Arts(Thomas de Quincey). • Digital Book, Inc. offers the first 50 digital books in floppy disk with Digital Book Format (DBF). • Hugo Award for Best Novel nominee texts published on CD-ROM by Brad Templeton. • Bibliobytes, a project of free digital books online in Internet. 1995 • Amazon starts to sell physical books on the Internet. • Online poet Alexis Kirke discusses the need for wireless internet electronic paper readers in his article "The Emuse". 1996 • Project Gutenberg reaches 1,000 titles. The target is 1,000,000. 1998 • Kim Blagg obtained the first ISBN issued to an ebook and began marketing multimedia-enhanced ebooks on CDs through retailers including amazon.com, bn.com and borders.com. Shortly thereafter through her company "Books OnScreen" she introduced the ebooks at the Book Expo America in Chicago, IL to an impressed, but unconvinced bookseller audience. • First ebook Readers: Rocket ebook and SoftBook. • Cybook / Cybook Gen1 Sold and manufactured at first by Cytale (1998–2003) then by Bookeen. • Websites selling ebooks in English, likeeReader.comandeReads.com.

E-book

1999 • Baen Books opens up the Baen Free Library. • Webscriptions starts selling unencrypted eBooks. 2000 • Microsoft Reader with ClearType technology. • Stephen King offers his book "Riding the Bullet" in digital file; it can only be read on a computer. 2001 • Todoebook.com, the first website selling ebooks in Spanish. 2002 • Random House and HarperCollins start to sell digital versions of their titles in English. 2004 • Sony Librie with e-ink. 2005 • Amazon buys Mobipocket. 2006 • Sony Reader with e-ink. • LibreDigital launched BookBrowse as an online reader for publisher content. • BooksOnBoard, one of the largest independent ebookstores, opens and sells ebooks and audiobooks in six different formats. 2007. • Amazon launches Kindle in US. • Bookeen launched Cybook Gen3 in Europe. 2008 • Adobe and Sony agreed to share their technologies (Reader and DRM). • Sony sells the Sony Reader PRS-505 in UK and France. • BooksOnBoard is first to sell ebooks for iPhones. 2009 • Bookeen releases the Cybook Opus in the US and in Europe. • Sony releases the Reader Pocket Edition and Reader Touch Edition. • Amazon releases the Kindle 2. • Amazon releases the Kindle DX in the US. • Barnes & Noble releases the Nook in the US. 2010 • Amazon releases the Kindle DX International Edition worldwide. [19] • Bookeen reveals the Cybook Orizon at CES. [20] • TurboSquid Magazine announces first magazine publication using Apple's iTunes LP format. • Apple releases the iPad with an e-book app called iBooks. Between its release in April 2010, to October, Apple has sold 7 million iPads. • Kobo Inc. releases its Kobo eReader to be sold at Indigo/Chapters in Canada and Borders in the United States. • Amazon.com reported that its e-book sales outnumbered sales of hardcover books for the first time ever during [15] the second quarter of 2010. • Amazon releases the third generation kindle, available in 3G+Wi-Fi and Wi-Fi versions. • Kobo Inc. releases an updated Kobo eReader which now includes Wi-Fi.

E-book

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Barnes & Noble releases the new NOOKcolor. Sony releases its second generation Daily Edition PRS-950. PocketBook expands its successful line of e-readers in the ever-growing market. Google launches Google eBooks

Formats There are a variety of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books. A writer or publisher has many options when it comes to choosing a format for production. Every format has its proponents and champions, and debates over which format is best can become intense.

Comparison to printed books

Advantages [21] There are over 2 million free books available for download as of August 2009. Mobile availability of e-books may be provided for users with a mobile data connection, so that these e-books need not be stored on the device. An e-book can be offered indefinitely, without ever going "out of print". In the space that a comparably sized print book takes up, an e-reader can potentially contain thousands of e-books, limited only by its memory capacity. If space is at a premium, such as in a backpack or at home, it can be an advantage that an e-book collection takes up little room and weight. E-book websites can include the ability to translate books into many different languages, making the works available to speakers of languages not covered by printed translations. Depending on the device, an e-book may be readable in [22] low light or even total darkness. Many newer readers have the ability to display motion, enlarge or change fonts, use Text-to-speech software to read the text aloud for visually impaired, partially sighted, elderly or dyslectic people, search for key terms, find definitions, or allow highlighting bookmarking and annotation. Devices that utilize E Ink can imitate the look and ease of readability of a printed work while consuming very little power, allowing continuous reading for weeks at time. While an e-book reader costs much more than one book, the electronic texts are at times cheaper. Moreover, a great share of e-books are available online for free, minus the minimal costs of the electronics required. For example, all fiction from before the year 1900 is in the public domain. Also, libraries lend more current e-book titles for limited times, free samples are available of many publications, and there are other lending models being piloted as well. E-books can be printed for less than the price of traditional new books using new on-demand book printers. An e-book can be purchased/borrowed, downloaded, and used immediately, whereas when one buys or borrows a book, one must go to a bookshop, a home library, or public library during limited hours, or wait for a delivery. The production of e-books does not consume paper and ink. The necessary computer or e-reader uses less materials. Printed books use 3 times more raw materials and 78 times more water to produce albeit they do not require a [23] [24] machine for use (out of context ) Depending on possible digital rights management, e-books can be backed up to recover them in the case of loss or damage and it may be possible to recover a new copy without cost from the distributor. Compared to printed publishing, it is cheaper and easier for authors to self-publish e-books. Also, the [25] dispersal of a free e-book copy can stimulate the sales of the printed version.

E-book

Drawbacks Ebook formats and file types continue to develop and change through time through advances and developments in technology or the introduction of new proprietary formats. While printed books remain readable for many years, e-books may need to be copied or converted to a new carrier or file type over time. PDF and epub are growing standards, but are not universal. Not all books are available as e-books. Paper books can be bought and wrapped for a present and a library of books can provide visual appeal, while the digital nature of e-books makes them non-visible or tangible. E-books cannot provide the physical feel of the cover, paper, and binding of the original printed work. An author who publishes a book often puts more into the work than simply the words on the pages. E-books may cause people "to do the [26] grazing and quick reading that screens enable, rather than be by themselves with the author's ideas". They may [27] use the e-books simply for reference purposes rather than reading for pleasure and leisure. Books with large pictures (such as children's books) or diagrams are more inconvenient for viewing and reading. A book will never turn off and would be unusable only if damaged or after many decades. The shelf life of a printed book exceeds that of an e-book reader, as over time the reader's battery will drain and require recharging. Additionally, "As in the case of microfilm, there is no guarantee that [electronic] copies will last. Bits become degraded over time. Documents may get lost in cyberspace...Hardware and software become extinct at a distressing [28] rate." E-book readers are more susceptible to damage from being dropped or hit than a print book. Due to faults in hardware or software, e-book readers may malfunction and data loss can occur. As with any piece of technology, the reader must be protected from the elements (such as extreme cold, heat, water, etc.), while print books are not susceptible to damage from electromagnetic pulses, surges, impacts, or extreme temperatures. The cost of an e-book reader far exceeds that of a single book, and e-books often cost the same as their print versions. Due to the high cost of the initial investment in some form of e-reader, e-books are cost prohibitive to much of the world's population. Furthermore, there is no used e-book market, so consumers will neither be able to recoup some of their costs by selling an unwanted title they have finished, nor will they be able to buy used copies at significant discounts, as they can now easily do with printed books. Because of the high-tech appeal of the e-reader, they are a greater target for theft than an individual print book. Along with the theft of the physical device, any e-books it contains also become stolen. E-books purchased from vendors like Amazon or Barnes & Noble.com are stored "in the cloud" on servers and "digital lockers" and have the benefit of being easily retrieved if an e-reading device is lost. Not all e-booksellers are cloud based; if an e-book is stolen, accidentally lost, or deleted, in the absence of a backup it may have to be repurchased. [29] The display resolutions of reading devices are currently lower than those of printed materials. Because of proprietary formats or lack of file support, formatted e-books may be unusable on certain readers. Additionally, the reader's interaction with the reader may cause discomfort, for example glare on the screen or difficulty holding the [30] device. Due to digital rights management, customers typically cannot resell or loan their e-books to other readers. [31] However, some Barnes & Noble e-books are lendable for two weeks via their 'LendMe' technology. Additionally, [32] the potential for piracy of e-books may make publishers and authors reluctant to distribute digitally. E-book readers require various toxic substances to produce, are non-biodegradable, and the disposal of their batteries in particular raises environmental concerns. As technologies rapidly change and old devices become obsolete, there will be larger amounts of toxic wastes that are not easily biodegradable like paper. Paper products are easily sustainable and reusable, unlike many rare earth minerals that are used up in electronic devices. A rare or fine book can be an art object with a high monetary value. One can invest in first editions and out of print books. Some books will have a very high resale value. Real paper books can be used to decorate a home or office. Some finely bound, limited edition books can be considered very beautiful. Very old books often have great historical importance, and are one of a kind. Archives can easily store old paper books and documents, unlike e-books.