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What’s Forward – Future Developments In E-book Readers

Posted by on Monday, 6 February, 2012

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E book readers have stormed the market because the launch of the popular wildly Amazon Kindle. Initially the Kindle was bought out and Amazon was not in a position to keep up with the demand for the brand new gadget. Since the debut of the Kindle there are quite a few new e-book readers on the market. And more ebook readers are nearly to return out. The popularity of these devices is only increasing. What may the world of e-book readers seem like in the near future? Here are some predictions about e book readers for the near future.

We will see widespread and commonplace formats.

One factor which may happen with these readers is a typical format. This might be a common format to work on all ebook readers. This shall be vital because authors and publishers will want to have a format where they can promote to all of the hundreds of thousands of ebook reader homeowners versus just a small subset of the market for just one reader. Corporations like Amazon may be unwilling to undertake this at first. In spite of everything, if they will management the format, they have far more management over pricing. However we expect it is certain to occur especially if Amazon can sell to tens of millions of non-Kindle readers.

Varied book firms will type unique contracts with publishing companies.

One other actuality is an unique contract. A write might just publish for one system and one system only. If the author is popular enough and the incentive is high enough, this might happen. Again, this offers a level of management of business choices and pricing. When Apple created a whole music library with iTunes after which controlled distribution of the music, they instantly had the higher hand. Publishers don’t need the same thing to occur to books. They need to control distribution.

There shall be digital media with printed books.

As these new reader units develop into more widespread, many printed ebook purchases may also give you access to the downloadable e book reader model of the e book as well. This would nonetheless give printed books dominance while giving those that have e-book readers cause to exit and shop for real books. DVDs at the moment are doing this model the place you get the physical product, the DVD, in addition to the digital copy. We think that the nice old paper guide just isn’t going to disappear anytime too soon. But, like with so many nice shifts, we do think that increasingly more paper books might want to share the market with digital books.

Digital textbooks will enter the market.

It is solely a matter of time that expensive textbooks begin changing into ebooks. Faculties will want these readers for their first 12 months college students to have the ability to place textbook and homework material on them. These may turn into a part of many classrooms. Like with many know-how advances, the younger generations will embrace the change first.

We expect that ebooks are here to stay. They will not take over completely any time soon, but they will play an increasingly vital function within the distribution of information.

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How Amazon Could Split Netflix and iTunes to Win Streaming Video

Posted by on Sunday, 29 January, 2012

Everyone knows that Amazon wants to extend its digital media offerings. Its executives know the long-term trends for sales of DVDs, Blu-Rays and their players. The company that dominates e-book and e-reader sales was already ?beaten first to digital music by Apple. Jeff Bezos never wants that to happen again.



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Symform gets $2 million for peer-to-peer ‘cloud’ storage

Posted by on Tuesday, 24 January, 2012

Cloud storage vendor Symform netted million in venture funding from new backer Westfield Capital, which joined existing investors OVP Venture Partners and Longworth Venture Partners to bring total funding for this Series A round to .5 million.

Cloud storage has been a hot market, as consumers have long embraced the idea of putting their digital documents, music and photos on cheap storage outside their homes. But now it’s heating up even more as corporate CIOs are finally willing to trust at least some company data to cloud providers.

In Symform’s case, the cloud in question is different than it is for the others in this arena: The vendor put together a peer-to-peer storage network that allows users to contribute their own unused storage space to others on the network in return for free or flat-fee cloud storage. These users can get up to 200 GB of free storage if they register, contribute disk space, or refer others to the service.

Symform CEO Matthew Schiltz has likened Symform to Skype, which gutted traditional long-distance calling prices with its cheap peer-to-peer telephony. As cheap as many cloud storage alternatives are, Schiltz still thinks they’re overpriced.

The Seattle-based company claims its user base has grown 800 percent in the last six months.

Given the clamor for cloud storage, the opportunities are ripe for innovative vendors, but given the sheer number of such vendors out there, competition will remain fierce.

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Cord Cutters: Netgear’s NeoTV reviewed

Posted by on Wednesday, 11 January, 2012

Netgear is trying to compete with its former partner Roku with its own streaming media player, the Netgear NeoTV, also know as the NTV 200. Check out our review below:



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  • The Netgear NeoTV was originally priced at 0, but you can find it online for around . More info on the device on Neatgear’s website.
  • Netgear had originally teamed up with Roku to distribute a co-branded player based on Roku’s platform, but that partnership only lasted a few months.
  • Many of the NeoTV’s apps are powered by Flingo. Check out our previous Flingo coverage.

What kind of features are you looking for in a player like this one? Is not having Hulu Plus a deal breaker, or do you care more about having YouTube? Please share your thoughts in the comments, get in touch with us on Twitter (@cordcutters) or email us at cordcutters @ gigaom.com.

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Lenovo launches first Ice Cream Sandwich TV

Posted by on Sunday, 8 January, 2012

Lenovo is entering the TV business at this year’s CES, and it’s doing so with a splash: The company announced the world’s first TV set running Android 4.0, a.k.a. Ice Cream Sandwich, Sunday. The device, dubbed the Lenovo K91 Smart TV, will initially be available only in China, but Lenovo is looking to launch it in other countries later this year.

Here’s what the TV will offer aside form the latest version of Android:

  • The K91 is powered by Qualcomm’s 8060 Snapdragon processor, which clocks 1.5 Ghz.
  • It will have 1 GB of RAM, 8 GB of storage and 2 GB SD card.
  • There will be two models, one with a 42” and one with a 50” 3-D LED screen.
  • It will have an integrated 5 MP webcam, which will be used for facial recognition. Why would you need that? Parental control, of course.
  • There will be a 3-axis gyro gamepad, but the regular remote control sounds pretty cool, too: It will have a touchpad as well as an integrated microphone, and voice recognition will make it possible to control the devices without pressing any buttons at all.

Owners of the device will be able to access Lenovo’s yet-to-be-launched cloud services from the TV to stream personal media stored in the cloud. Lenovo hasn’t officially announced its cloud plans yet, but it sounds like it will offer media and screen sharing across mobile, PC and TV devices.

It’s worth pointing out that the K91 won’t actually be running Google TV, which is based on Android 3.1 a.k.a. Honeycomb. Lenovo instead chose to customize Android 4.0. It’s unclear whether it will have access to the Android Market, or whether Lenovo is launching its very own app store to power its foray into the TV market.

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E-book publishers are now being investigated in the US, not just Europe

Posted by on Thursday, 8 December, 2011

Just two days after the European Commission announced that it was investigating Apple and major international publishers for possible e-book price fixing, the US Justice Department has made it clear that it’s also launching a probe into the possibility of “anticompetitive practices involving e-book sales.”

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