ebook-reader
Amazon Kindle Fire sold at $10 less to build share
Published on: 30th October, 2011
According to recent estimations, the Kindle Fire of Amazon is being sold at an accepted loss in order to revive competition with Apple and Barnes & Noble. HIS iSuppli calculated, based on a list of expected and known components that the 7-inch mini tablet would cost $209.63 in parts and manufacturing, which is $10 more [...]
About $1 billion estimated in the e-book business this year
Published on: 14th November, 2010
The e-book business is worth about $1 billion and is expected to triple in size, as a new forecast of Forrester says. The business is supposed to reach a $966 million value of e-books sold this year and should triple to about $3 billion in 2015. Analyst James McQuivey says that book reading would be [...]
Plastic Logic gets funds to produce e-readers in Russia
Published on: 14th November, 2010
Some talks between Plastic Logic and the Russian company RUSNANO have been rumoured and are now known to be true, as the two companies had announced their partnership. According to the agreement, they will make a factory to produce the next generation of Plastic logic’s plastic electronic displays, as the e-book reader called QUE ProReader [...]
ASUS DR-950 e-book reader seen on Flickr
Published on: 27th January, 2010
The DR-950 e-book reader made by ASUS was recently viewed on the Flickr page of the company. It has a 9-inch grayscale screen and its resolution is 1,024×768. The photos on the Flickr page indicate a very thin device, about one third of an inch, a little thinner than the iPhone 3G. While specifications are [...]
MSI – 3D notebook and a dual-screen e-book reader presented at CES
Published on: 9th January, 2010
The Taiwanese company MSI is expected to present a 3D notebook and a dual l-screen e-book reader this week, in the CES show in Las Vegas. The 3D notebook has a 15.6-inch 120Hz 3D HD display. Its GPU and 3D panel are working together to create a simultaneous presentation of about 60 images for both [...]
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