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The Sony Reader (ソニー・リーダー) was a line of e-book readers manufactured by Sony. The first model was the PRS-500 released in September 2006 and was related to the earlier Sony Librie, the first commercial E Ink e-reader in 2004 using an electronic paper display developed by E Ink Corporation. [ 1] The last model was the PRS-T3 ...
Google Play Books, formerly Google eBooks, is an ebook digital distribution service operated by Google, part of its Google Play product line. Users can purchase and download ebooks and audiobooks from Google Play , which offers over five million titles, with Google claiming it to be the "largest ebooks collection in the world".
Rakuten Kobo Inc. Rakuten Kobo Inc., or simply Kobo, is a Canadian company that sells ebooks, audiobooks, e-readers and formerly tablet computers. It is headquartered in Toronto, Ontario, Canada and is a subsidiary of the Japanese e-commerce conglomerate Rakuten. The name Kobo is an anagram of book. [ 3][ 4]
Sony (SNE) is going home and hitting the books -- the e-books, that is. On Thursday, the electronics giant unveiled a Japanese e-book distribution joint venture that's taking aim at rival Apple ...
The following is a comparison of e-book formats used to create and publish e-books . The EPUB format is the most widely supported e-book format, supported by most e-book readers except Amazon Kindle [a] devices. Most e-book readers also support the PDF and plain text formats. E-book software can be used to convert e-books from one format to ...
The Sony Librie, released in 2004 and the precursor to the Sony Reader, was the first e-reader to use electronic paper. [ 8 ] Many e-readers can use the internet through Wi-Fi and the built-in software can provide a link to a digital Open Publication Distribution System (OPDS) library or an e-book retailer, allowing the user to buy, borrow, and ...
Yesterday Sony Corp. (SNE) finally introduced a true competitor to Amazon's popular Kindle e-reader. Dubbed the Daily Edition, this model supports wireless data transmission, a key feature that ...
BBeB (for Broad Band eBook) is a proprietary eBook file format developed by Sony and Canon. Although initially designed for the Sony Librié, it is also supported by other Sony e-book readers. [1] BBeB files have the following extensions: LRS and LRF or LRX. LRS files are XML files that can be edited and follow the BBeB Xylog XML specification.