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What's new with digital devices
Posted on: 9/18/2009 3:03:22 PM
Since Apple began developing the Newton in 1989, gadget heads have dreamed of the perfect electronic reader. An electronic reading device would pack your bookshelf and magazine rack into one electronic handheld device. Naturally, achieving this dream has taken a couple of decades of tinkering.

There have already been numerous reader applications for PDAs, but the Amazon Kindle has been the category's standard-bearer since its 2007 debut. The Kindle drove a 235 percent spike in e-reader sales last year. The Consumer Electronics Association estimates more than half a million e-readers were shipped in 2008.

Building on that success, Amazon chief Jeff Bezos hit the talk show circuit in February to promote the Kindle 2, which makes massive improvements on the original. With Amazon's marketing muscle and market share, the Kindle 2 leads the pack in becoming the iPod of e-readers. But don't count out entries from lesser-known manufacturers like iRex and Plastic Logic, as well as household names like Sony and Apple, who are betting that their devices just might become the next "iPod of e-readers." For more information about the electronic readers that are already on the market, as well as the devices that are soon to be released, read on.

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