Quiz 9

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iPad

-2010 -Allows the reader to access both Kindle and Nook formats -Enables readers to download proprietary e-books from Apple's Bookstore that cannot be read on other machines -Initially, e-readers were limited to storing and displaying e-books

Cost of E-Reader

-2014: Least expensive Kindle is 69

What is an e-reader?

-A lightweight, handheld device designed specifically for the reading of ebooks and other digital text -Can hold libraries of thousands of books and only weigh half a pound -Offer the ability to download new content any time -Key to the rising commercial success of the e-book

E-Textbook Weaknesses

-Able to highlight -Take notes -Flip through pages

How does e-ink work?

-An e-reader sends an electric charge to each capsule making it appear either black or white -Forms words -Behave like normal paper and require external light to be read

What is an E-Book?

-Digitalized version of a book -Meant to be read on a computer, e-reader, or tablet -Some are exactly like an actual book -Others introduce animation, video, hypertext, and social networking

Forcing of formats

-For convenience and cost -Convenient for a reader to stay with one supplier because if they changed they would have to switch formats

First portable e-reader

-Introduced in the 90s -Sony's Data Discman -Used the compact disc as a method of storing data -Allowed for the reading of books without a bulky hard drive

Tablet vs. E-Reader

-Kindle has dominance over the e-reader market -Tablet has surpassed the e-reader in overall sales -E-reader growth rate is on the decline -Tablets: Keep expanding

Tablet

-Lacks ink display -Reading experience is much more like reading on a computer -Introduced more functionality to a device that has almost all benefits of an e-reader

What is E-Ink?

-Millions of small capsules, each containing black and white particles

Benefits of e-ink

-More like normal paper -External light to be read -Save battery

1980s

-People could read ebooks on their personal computers -Did not become popular

Format of E-Reader

-Plain ASCII text -All readers support PDF files -All but Amazon support EPUB format

Michael Hart

-Project Gutenberg -A digital book library -An attempt to catalogue and make accessible all human knowledge

Michael Hart's Goal

-Provide 99% of the public with access to free of very low-cost versions of books that were already in the public domain -Select texts that would be of interest to the public and make those accessible

Goal of an e-book

-Provide the ability to read books through an onscreen interface rather than on a paper

Wireless Downloads

-Sony Data Discern required CDs -Early e-readers required e-books to be downloaded to a PC and transferred to the e-reader -Now users can download e-books directly to their device

2006

-Sony came out with the Sony Reader -First e-reader to offer e-ink display

In color e-ink

-The black and white capsules appear under a color filter

______ predates the _____ by _____

E-book, e-reader, 20 years

Amazon E-Book Success

-2007: Kindle Reader -First time the e-reader was a popular success -The existence of a company that already sold many books through online interactions -Oprah endorsed -Specialized formatting for different devices -Introduced a proprietary format that can only be read through the correct kind of device or software

Barnes & Noble's Nook

-2009 -Format could not be read on Kindle


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