Last year there were more sales for e-book of printed books. On 5 March this year, Barnes & Noble, the world’s largest chain of bookstores, purchased on-line provider of e-books, Fictionwise. Chairman of BN, William J Lynch, said: “The market is not to develop in Russia. We believe it is a big area of growth for the future.”

Many people like to buy and read e-books and e-journals through the light hand scanner today. Several companies with innovative, standalone e-book readers like Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Hanlin eReader coming (aka Endless Ideas BEBOOK), etc., these elegant gadget thin people back to the time of reading. Let’s look at some of these players in this article.

E-books and e-journals: How do they work?

E-books can be of two types: those that can be read on a computer and those who need special equipment to read. There are several formats for electronic books, including Adobe PDF, Microsoft LIT, Palm PDB, etc. To purchase an e-book, go to the distributor’s online e-book and pay for registration for your readers (DRM Digital Rights Management) protection, and download the e-book readers to register. Since only the registration e-book reader of this e-book, the author and the publisher can be read by anti-piracy. Digital copy is not possible with DRM protection.

People e-book reader

There are many readers available on the market, and most of them are working with the electronic paper technology from E Ink Corporation.

In 2008, an application for Apple iPhone for reading electronic books on the iPhone has been an increase in revenues (even more than the Amazon Kindle a total turnover). This was one of the most popular reading of iPhone e-books. But in this article we look only at specialized e-book reader.

1. Amazon Kindle

Perhaps the most popular e-book reader, Amazon Kindle posted sales of 380,000 units in 2008 in the United States alone. Kindle is now in the next generation with the advent of Amazon Kindle Kindle 2 this year and DX (DX is already sold out). According to Digital Readers, K-DX provides support PDF natively, is an iPhone-like accelerometer changes the orientation of the screen when you turn on the player and is better suited for reading electronic versions of newspapers, magazines, books and formatted. With the possibility of thousands of electronic books generated from the storage and easy access to online and library-Amazon, Kindle is probably the first choice for anyone looking for a stand-alone e-book reader.

The display is just like normal paper and easy to read. Kindle wireless capability to access the library online magazine and shop Amazon. Kindle 2 is a display of 600 x 800 (6 inches). E ‘can receive books through the Sprint high-speed 3G network, nationally. Supported formats include proprietary formats Amazon, AZW (DRM-restricted), PRC, TXT and PDF formats, some of these needs () to be converted into AZW.

2. Sony Reader

Sony Digital Book Reader is the popular e-book reader from Sony, and already there are three issues that were PRS-500 PRS-505 and PRS-700.

The reader has a display 600 x 800 pixel electronic paper (EPD), as Kindle, and the display is 8 levels of gray. PRS-700 edition, unlike other sports, a touch screen. Supported formats e-books are books BBeB (by Marlin), TXT, RTF, epub, Adobe PDF, Microsoft Word (DOC). It supports JPEG, GIF, PNG and BMP images and MP3 and AAC for audio.

3. iRex iLiad

iRex iLiad as Kindle and Sony Reader uses electronic paper displays and extends to 768 x 1024 (8 inch) resolution. Has 16-screen grayscale.

With Wi-Fi, LAN, USB connection or a network using an account MyiRex, you can transfer e-book for the readers. Supported e-book formats including Adobe PDF, MOBI, PRC, HTML and TXT.

4. Hanlin eReader

Hanlin eReader in different brands around the world, like ideas Endless BEBOOK known, is a popular e-book reader. Has a resolution of 800 x 600, 4-grayscale display. It connects via a USB port.

Unlike other players that this player supports almost all popular file formats for E-pound Adobe PDF, CHM, DjVu, DOC, epub, FB2, HTM, LIT, MOBI, PPT, PRC, RTF, TXT, Wolf . It also supports the storage formats such as ZIP and RAR; image formats such as BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and MP3 audio format.

Conclusion

Most of this e-book readers with its revolutionary e-ink technology from E Ink Corporation has been developed. This is a digital display of paper that gives the experience of reading the paper itself. With space for thousands of e-books and the ability to charge the battery for thousands of page turns or keep for several hours, this e-book reader can be regarded as a portable library, too. Since they connect to some network resources is available for purchase and download popular fiction and non-fiction online e-book vendor, can provide an experience of great reading if you are traveling a long distance.

Some of the most popular file formats including Adobe PDF, Microsoft LIT, Amazon AZW, Mobipocket PRC, PDB, etc. Some popular sizes of the contents of the PC to compete, such as HTML, TXT, DOC, and can be a form of e – book. In this article we will see some of these popular formats and the reader software.

1. Amazon AZW

With the production of Amazon Kindle, Amazon has created a file format called Kindle recognizes AZW. With its own DRM (Digital Rights Management), a structure that protects the AZW format e-book publishers and authors as piracy. Kindle only recognizes this format and other formats should be translated into AZW before they are read from Kindle. To do this, offers a free Kindle conversion email help you download the book in a Kindle format e-mail. AZW loosely based on the popular base Mobi Mobipocket format.

Kindle DX – a device the size screen that is actually 1 5 times greater than in the regular display Kindle – includes native PDF support, and according to the article “Which eBook Reader is best for me?” specifically for reading electronic versions of newspapers, magazines designed and formatted pounds (Digital Book Reader).

2. Adobe PDF

Adobe PDF (Portable Document Format) is not only an e-book, but also a popular PC file formats. First created in 1993, became very popular before the revolution of e-book started. E ‘was created for the preservation and transmission of portable, printable documents. Adobe PostScript is the very basis of PDF documents.

PDF documents which support compression, password protection, and appear in almost all platforms (hence the name “portable document format). It is estimated that more than 250 million PDF documents available on the web. Software Adobe, Acrobat and Acrobat Reader has been to create and read PDF files, but in 2008, PDF has been published as an open standard, and now there are several applications available to read PDF documents and process. This is the popular PDF e – book Arena foam.

3. Microsoft BED

With strong competition from Adobe and other popular e-book came to Microsoft with its proprietary e-book, lit. The file “on” and are accessed by Microsoft Reader, available as a free download from Microsoft’s website. The question is only for the Windows operating system.

Microsoft Reader is used for reading e-books on portable devices that use the ClearType technology, the text makes improvements on these devices. He was introduced in 2000

LIT also supports DRM (Digital Rights Management) protection of e-author of the book and publisher rights reserved. You must install the Microsoft reader, once in your PC, Tablet PC or turn your Pocket PC, through the activation site reader. You can purchase e-books in LIT format of Microsoft Reader Web site as well.

4. Palm e-book (PDB)

Palm database format (PDB) is a proprietary format for Palm PDA. There are, however, you can log on to Windows or some other type of operating system with the help of specialized software.

Palm eReader is a free program for reading PDB files. This player is for a wide range of devices and operating systems, BlackBerry, iPhone, Macintosh, PalmOS, PocketPC, Symbian, Windows Smartphone, etc. available

You can purchase and download e-book from eReader site and read through the device. There are also a number of classic public domain freely available in PDB format. Books purchased are encrypted for security reasons.

5. Mobipocket PRC or MOBI

Mobipocket is a French company of software, Mobipocket Reader, which are used to create e-book can be read on your PDA or Smartphone. The reader is the native format PRC. Format PRC, and Reader are supported by BlackBerry, Franklin eBookMan, PalmOS, Symbian, PocketPC, Windows Mobile Smartphone.

Mobipocket Reader enables an e-book library for storing and managing all e-books. You can use the metadata with the e-books, information like author, title, associate publisher, and evaluate the e-books. You can transfer e-books to all your PDA from the PC via a USB connection. You can also add notes and comments on your e-books and mark each term. In addition, it allows the reader, look at the definitions of each term, simply existing Longman dictionaries, Merriam Webster, Oxford, and among others.

Conclusion

These are the most popular document formats e-books. There are also lesser-known formats, with special devices for reading online. However, since most readers know almost all formats, it is easy for the user reads e-books in every reader. The conversion and publishing e-book on one of these formats is also easy with the help of special software.