It might be that Apple just made life easier for publishers pondering if they should start developing for smaller-sized devices.
Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs commented during the company’s quarterly earnings call yesterday (Monday 18) that he did not believe on an “avalanche of tablets” about to enter the market: “It appears to be just a handful of credible entrants, not exactly an avalanche”.
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Singapore Airlines will progressively introduce an electronic version of magazines on its KrisWorld inflight entertainment system. As a first step, the Airline will offer in electronic format its three inflight magazines - SilverKris, KrisShop and KrisWorld – as part of a trial with a privately held Singapore-based company, SmarttPapers Aviation Pte Ltd.
Digital distribution: Top players create a common e-reading platform in Japan
Instead of waiting for the Japanese launch of Apple's iPad, Sony, Toppan Printing, KDDI Corporation, and the Asahi Shimbun have announced they will establish a joint venture to develop an eBook distribution company that will build and manage a common distribution platform for books, comics, magazines and newspapers for the Japanese market. And the door is opened for other companies.
e-reading devices: Wrap up CES Las Vegas 2010
The number of announcements in the e-reader area confirms, should that be necessary, that the race is now on between all major electronics manufacturers.
CES (Consumer Electronics Show) Las Vegas, the world's largest consumer technology trade show is starting today (7 January). Two new e-reading devices, the Skiff Reader and the QUE proReader, developed with the press industry in mind, will be launched at the event. And it comes as no surprise that Amazon has chosen this very same week to announce that its Kindle DX (also designed for the press!) was ready for a worldwide shipment.
Sony's just announced the Reader Daily Edition, a new device that will give consumers wireless access via AT&T’s 3G mobile broadband network to Sony’s eBook store.The Reader Daily Edition will be available this December. Unfortunately, no timetable for a European launch at the moment.
A complete new line of digital readers for Sony (last on the right is the Reader Daily- photo from ebouquin)
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