With Apple's recent launch of the interactive iPad - coupled with its e-reader app, iBooks - could the hand-held device close the market out for e-reader devices?
Apple's intent to challenge for a share of the growing e-reader market is clear from the iPad's free-to-download iBook app. However, with the likes of the Amazon Kindle, the Plastic Logic Que and the Barnes and Noble Nook, will the iPad be able to capitalise? Could an Apple-backed device erase the demand for specialist e-reading devices completely?
+Plastic Electronics is hosting a discussion on this topic on its LinkedIn group. If you have something to say, follow the link and join the debate.
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Discussion: Could the iPad dominate the e-reader market?
Our LinkedIn group hosts a discussion on the iPad’s role in the e-reader market
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WEBINAR: e-readers and e-paper - technology and applications
An upcoming webinar from +Plastic Electronics and IntertechPira will discuss the evolution of e-paper for the e-reader market
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Big presence for e-readers at CES 2010
This year’s Consumer Electronics Show (CES) will showcase a wealth of products that exploit e-paper display technology within e-reader applications
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Que ProReader
Plastic Logic's website for its e-reader
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The Electronic Displacement of Print
A Pira market report with forecasts to 2018 of e-paper, e-readers and other innovations and technologies displacing and impacting print
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