According to ITWorld Mike Igan, electronic book readers are a transient fashion, as in his time, the PDAs.
Amazon and e-book market
In an article published in ITWorld , Mike Igan ago interesting analysis of the market for "eBooks": the divide between the market for the devices and the content market (ie, books). Realizing that the giant Amazon now dominates both markets, predicts that Amazon is slowly going to focus more on the content market to gradually leave the market not as juicy reading devices.
this analysis is interesting because it goes against the current statements for 2010 predict a boom in handheld readers of books. However, based on an example based on experience: in a not so distant past, many people used PDAs as personal organizers. With these devices, you could keep your list of contacts, calendar, task lists, etc ... Today, nobody uses or produces, and all use of smartphones, that do all the above plus a phone call, and more over are now able to surf the web.
eBook Reader and "tablets"
Igan Mike believes that e-book readers are going to go just as happened to the PDAs, which will be the "tablets" that will be deleted. The "tablets" are a kind of very thin laptops that use touch screens. Apple is working in one model, the iSlate, and several manufacturers have introduced their models in the large CES that developed in Las Vegas last week. (By the way, if anyone has a good translation of the term "tablet" in English, I'm interested. Whiteboard sounds very ugly is not it?)
prediction is valid, and indeed the speech that is to say that e-book readers are too limited and too expensive to be enforced in the market is not very new.
But maybe there is another alternative for consolidating this niche market: reader offer e-books at low prices, offering good quality reading and definitely not aimed at an audience "geek" but people who want to read.
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