Sat January 18 2014
New low-power reflective LCD |
11:19 AM by pdurrant in E-Book General | News Thanks to The Digital Reader for more news on an interesting new reflective LCD display. While it clearly is initially aimed at watches and similar devices, it can scale to ereader sized displays. At 3mW to 4mW for a 6" display, a 3.7V, 1.9Ah battery like the one in a Kindle could power the display for 70 days or so. Of course, that's just the display, power is needed for the computer part of an ereader too, but it shows that the display is low power enough to be used in an ereader. The displays going into production have a reflectance of 32% and a contrast ratio of 20:1 In comparison, eInk's Carta display has a reflectance of 44%, but a contrast ratio of only 15:1. Japan Display claim 40% reflectance for their large screen prototype. I really hope some ereader manufacturer produces a device with this display. |
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eChristian.com Store Closing |
11:01 AM by Loosheesh in E-Book General | News Today I got an email from eChristian.com about their site closing down
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MobileRead Week in Review: 01/11 - 01/18 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Previously at MobileRead: E-Book General - News |
Fri January 17 2014
E-Reading Rises as Device Ownership Jumps |
04:14 AM by hughes in E-Book General | News New (2014 Jan 16) Pew survey results on reading habits: Most American adults read a print book in the past year, even as e-reading continues to grow |
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Thu January 16 2014
Germany's Weltbild insolvency |
05:25 AM by fjtorres in E-Book General | News From Publishers Weekly:
More at the source, including the (by now) the obligatory Amazon reference even though Germany is a fixed price market. They're calling it a "Borders incident" but it sounds more like a B&N scenario given their involvement in Tolino. |
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Wed January 15 2014
Dutch e-book sales rose by more than 60% in 2013 |
06:20 AM by Katsunami in E-Book General | News Original Article: Nederlandse e-bookverkoop stijgt met ruim 60 procent in 2013 Translation: In 2013, 60% more e-books were sold as compared to the year before. In total 1.95 million e-books were sold in 2013, compared to 1.2 million in 2012. Boekblad reported that at this moment, e-books are generating about 3.2% of all revenue. According to Mathijs Suidman, manager Digital Media of Centraal Boekhuis, which distributes almost all Dutch books, the figure is so low because e-books cost less on average. "If you'd look to the number of books sold, they'd make up about 4.6% of the A book market." Still, the growth is disappointing to him. "I expected that this amount would grow faster - partly because of my expectation that libraries would have started to loan e-books already, beginning last October," says Suidman. It looks like the market share of e-books is not rising very fast. Figures published earlier by NUTech showed that 4.1% of book revenue was generated by e-books in May 2013. More than one in five books that are ordered online is digital, says Suidman. The number of e-books on offer rose from 19.230 titles to 28.319. Centraal Boekhuis offers over 80.000 different physical books. |
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Sat January 11 2014
MobileRead Week in Review: 01/04 - 01/11 |
06:00 AM by Alexander Turcic in Miscellaneous | Week in Review Just in case you've missed anything, here is the list of our frontpage news this week. E-Book General - News E-Book Readers - Apple Devices |
Fri January 10 2014
"Barnes & Noble holiday sales drop on Nook slump" |
06:50 AM by John F in E-Book General | News "Nook segment sales in the nine weeks ended Dec. 28 fell 61%, including a 67% slump in device and accessories sales. Digital content sales were down 27%." |
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