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The Sony Reader was a book-sized gadget which introduced the mass market to an innovative paper-like screen called E Ink. It created a comfortable, portable reading experience. Another important move: Sony married its e-reader to an online ebookstore that simplified access to ebooks — though buying and reading ebooks was still not for the technically-challenged. Dramatic growth followed the launch of the Amazon Kindle in October click to enlarge. Sony had the right idea, but the event that ignited the market happened a year later when Amazon launched its Kindle e-reader.
And, importantly, it put everything together in a way that worked easily for ordinary consumers. In the first year 20, units were sold and in , Cisco invested in NuvoMedia, giving the company more credibility and another strategic ally. The e-reader business at this time period was unsustainable. Gemstar primarily bought the company for their patent portfolio. A few months after the sale, Eberhard and Tarpenning exited the firm in disappointment.
Gemstar released a successor to the Rocketbook, but after slow salest they officially pulled the plug in The Rocketbook debacle jaded Barnes and Noble who stopped selling ebooks altogether, although they jumped back into the fray almost a decade later.
Eberhard did not stop his enterpetial spirit and later co-founded Tesla. Pages do not exist in E-Books, and the orientation of the reader within the text can be altered depending on adjustments made to the font size and layout. Therefore, the location of the reader throughout the text is displayed as a percentage of the whole text. The rise of e-readers has prompted speculation about the ways the mind processes words on a screen compared to words in paper books—the concern that holding a physical book promotes understanding in a way that staring at a screen does not.
The physicality of the book, sparks the reader to see the text not only for its content but as an object as well. A recent study by Sara Margolin suggests that e-readers do not hinder reading comprehension, at least in short passages of text. As research like this gains ground, the use of e-readers will only increase, and with it, new ways of conceiving of and talking about reading will surface in the language, and in turn, enter dictionaries. While eBooks are unlikely to ever totally replace the physical books, their continued development will surely create new and interesting ways for people to consume content.
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