Following the steps leading online store Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, known as the largest bookstore in the United States also released an e-reader. Electronic book reader device (e-book) made by companies headquartered on Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, U.S. plan released by the name Nook, Tuesday (20/10) this.Nook appear with a touch screen with control buttons color but black and white study. Selling price is $ 259 or equivalent to the price of the latest edition of the e-reader called artificial Amazon.com Kindle. Nook uses electronic ink technology is also used Kindle and similar devices. This device will be sold online through the website starting late October www.nook.com.
It was not a sudden step Barnes & Noble entered the e-book business. Since July, the company has opened stores online bookstore at BN.com ebsite and has sold digital editions of books can be read on devices made by Apple's iPhone and the BlackBerry, including PCs and laptops.
As reported by the New York Times, Nook can access more than a million titles of books, archives newspapers, and magazines. In fact, more than 500,000 books available at BN.com can be downloaded free of charge. Free books are the result of collaboration with Google through a project with a number of renowned universities. The books are so far not available for Kindle.
E-book market today is still relatively small but experienced rapid growth. Based on data Codex Group, consultant publishing companies, the number of the owner of the e-reader will be doubled from 1.6 million people in late August to 3.8 million by the end of this year.
In addition to Barnes & Noble, Amazon.com and Sony first entered the business e-reader. Asus is also said to follow. Similarly, Irex and Plastic Logic are developing flexible electronic display technology.
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