subject: Why dedicated ebook reader will not go away? [print this page] Why dedicated ebook reader will not go away?
Nowadays there are many multimedia devices, such as cell phone / tablet / game player, do I need special e-book reader? When people can be read books on the phone or tablet, will you buy Kindle, Sony Reader, or any other ebook reader?
The answer is yes. The needs is exist and continue to exist, but will appear in different forms. The market will continue to dedicated readers. Manufacturers will not develop "normal" ebook reader, readers who purchase the specific economic rationality does not exist, their reading is not adequate to recover investment in dedicated readers, they will not concerned about whether there is a lot of fun features. Therefore, reader manufacturers will achieve the ultimate in some markets. For example, they will develop the following characteristics of the reader product:
1) The serious reader is using a reader
Such readers have a long battery life, so just let people read the books, enjoy using all means to develop new features that make ebook reader to do seamless, as against the aggregation function with multi-media equipment. Polymerization media devices can easily support the e-book format on the final winner, but for the serious reader's ebook reader will be as much as possible to support various e-book formats, because early the next e-book reader may not have accumulated few different ebook format. Such e-book readers will no longer be subject to the limitations of Internet access, Internet services, such as built-in reader Kindle and free Wi-Fi Internet Nook reader, will become a standard reader, the reader will always read the volume does not lack the means to buy books.
2) For the younger or older readers
See 5-year-old child started playing with my Sony Reader, 7-year-old kids walk around with a Kindle reader, I realize that readers need to function for the optimization of different markets. In the younger age population, can not read the book word tome children prefer to read with your fingers, no touch-screen, because the children will lead to unexpected touch screen flip. This group needs is the kind of features to the reader, rugged reader manufacturing, software keys or control buttons as possible. Also need to increase the stylus, so they can read while pointing to the side.
3) For the education market reader
I think the reader for the education market should have unique features: like a paper-thin flat-panel computer, but did not converge on the fancy media features multifunction devices and high power consumption. Should have a stylus function, support text and comments focused on inquiries, and other reference rich meaning. Such as the French open-source textbooks, readers can see on the screen size of paper the entire contents of the page, you can query the built-in dictionary meaning, they can even do the exercises in the book directly.
