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jbcohen · 01-23-2014, 07:23 AM

Last week I was talking to my pop, he is semi-computer literate, when I characterized the Ereader industry as composed of what I refered to as the Ereader big four: Amazon, Barns and Nobels, Sony and Kobo. I did not see anyone company as "leading the way" in terms of innovations. I think that Kobo came out with the integrated reading light first. We had a bit of a disagreement about including Kobo as one of the big four and we did not see Apple as much of a player in the ereading market. We did not see the tablets replacing ereaders any time soon more of a chocolate vs vanilla sort of difference, more of a personal preference choice. Some like the tablet's ability to do ereading amoung other functions however others do not want to be distracted by the other functions and concentrate on the book at hand. I would like to get forum members take on this discussion.

01-23-2014, 07:23 AM	#1
jbcohen Wizard Posts: 3,032 Karma: 11196738 Join Date: Oct 2010 Location: Where am I? Device: Kindle Paperwhite Signature edition and a Samsung S24 Ultra	The Ereader big four Last week I was talking to my pop, he is semi-computer literate, when I characterized the Ereader industry as composed of what I refered to as the Ereader big four: Amazon, Barns and Nobels, Sony and Kobo. I did not see anyone company as "leading the way" in terms of innovations. I think that Kobo came out with the integrated reading light first. We had a bit of a disagreement about including Kobo as one of the big four and we did not see Apple as much of a player in the ereading market. We did not see the tablets replacing ereaders any time soon more of a chocolate vs vanilla sort of difference, more of a personal preference choice. Some like the tablet's ability to do ereading amoung other functions however others do not want to be distracted by the other functions and concentrate on the book at hand. I would like to get forum members take on this discussion.