This neoprene sleeve with front accessory pouch for e-Readers fits Amazon Kindle, Sony PRS, and Barnes & Noble Nook.
- Dense, neoprene material protects your E-Reader from drops, bumps, scratches and scrapes
- Additional accessory pocket lets you store memory cards, card readers, charger and charging accessories
- Slimline design protects your E-Reader on its own or in a travel bag
- The back strap allows for easy carrying and comfort
- Guaranteed Quality! Manufacturer’s 3 Year Warranty
Neoprene is a synthetic rubber that is resistant to oils and aging and is commonly used in waterproof products like wetsuits, laptop sleeves, orthopedic braces (wrist, knee, etc.), electrical insulation, liquid and sheet-applied elastomeric membranes and flashings and car fan belts.etc. This neoprene sleeve is a great way to protect and store your E-Reader. It is made out of dense neoprene that protects your E-Reader from bumps, drops, scratches, and scrapes. It comes with an additional accessory pocket that can fit lots of your accessories. The sturdy handle on the back allows for easy transport. Protect your E-Reader! This cover fits Amazon Kindle (latest generation), Sony PRS, and B&N Nook.
Information Week reports that non-copyrighted documents can now be sent from a PC to smartphones, Amazon’s Kindle, Barnes & Noble’s Nook, and the Sony Reader using Scribd’s new document sharing app. “Scribd is in a perfect position to become the hub for mobile reading, the place where content creators come to easily publish their works and build a readership and where consumers come to find what they want to read on whatever device they want,” Trip Adler, co-founder and chief executive of Scribd, said in a statement.
http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/Column/Guest-Column/Ebook-Survival-of-the-Fittest-61128.htm
With the announcement of iPad with eBook capabilities, Amazon and Apple will be in direct competition.
The main reason e-book readers choose their digital versions over paper copies is because they are cheaper, and sometimes even free.
E-books haven’t always been free. In fact, as of just 10 years ago, e-books were more expensive than their paper counterparts. But lately Amazon has been offering e-books for free or at a discounted rate, some say as loss leaders in order to help push early adoption of their Kindle e-book reader platform. The proof is in the list of top 100 downloads of which 64 are listed for $0.00.
Amazon is able to distribute public domain works like “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes” and “Pride and Prejudice” for free, but e-books like Noel Hynd’s “Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker: Recipes for Entertaining” (#9) has to cost Amazon something. In the same way a grocery store offers a steal-of-a-deal on the front page of their ads, Amazon is luring in customers with these free e-books.
Would customers have purchased these free e-books if Amazon had not of offered them? Are people downloading them simply because they are free? Most are probably downloaded by readers in the first few weeks that they own a Kindle, when they’re looking to download something simply for the sake of downloading something and Amazon is in a way rewarding them for their recent purchase.
Kindle’s charts may also be skewed by hardcore early adopters’ reading habits, but these patterns may change now that more casual users are picking up the Kindle for the first time. And we know consumer buying habits are changing because more customers purchased Kindle titles than physical books on Christmas Day this year for the first time ever.
With Sony’s e-book Reader and Barnes and Noble’s nook e-book reader, the demand for e-books is only going to go up. If Amazon opens it’s e-book sales for distribution on these other devices, it can only be a win-win for hardware and book sales alike all around. Both the nook and the Kindle are solid platforms. Learn more about each of them here.
Nook takes everything good from Amazon’s Kindle and leaves all the bad behind, but is this really a game changing event?
Amazon shot for simplicity and what they created was a simple product. Yes, it was improved with the Kindle 2, but Barnes and Noble raised the bar considerably with the release of the nook.
While Amazon’s Kindle is still the market leader, it’s grayscale-only screen makes Barnes and Noble’s nook’s color screen look fantastic. I also features iPhone-like touch screen and finger manipulation. Just flick your finger and the screen scrolls just as it does on Apple’s iPhone.
Both ebook readers are similarly priced at $259 so removing price from the comparison, you are truly choosing between hardware and software options at this point along with the back-end service and ebook availability. Both are strong companies who share roots in selling books, but Barnes and Nobles is exclusively a book store and that may be why they are able to offer up to three times as many ebooks than Amazon.
And while we are comparing nook’s color screen to Apple’s iPhone, let us remember that Apple has yet to release an ebook reader or even a touch screen tablet. iPhone users can download and use both Kindle and Barnes and Noble apps to read ebooks on the iPhone, but Apple has yet to release a standalone ebook hardware platform. While the nook has made improvements to the ebook reader, it is not necessarily a game changer like the way the iPod changed MP3 players and the iPhone changed cell phones forever. Can Apple do it again and if so, will that be the game changer?
You might want to ask why you would want the game changed at all.
Barnes and Noble and Amazon are both releasing solid products that do one thing well: read ebooks. No, they can’t surf the web well, but they can download ebooks from the web just fine, which is exactly what they are for. If you want to search the web, there is already hardware for that. Most people can even surf the web on their cell phones, for example. So this push for a game changing device may only be a play on our human nature to always want the grass on the other side of the fence, never being satisfied. This fuels our economic engine and spurs innovation, but sometimes we need to stop and appreciate what we have now and that it is pretty cool and not always dismiss the present while we are waiting for the future to arrive.
