It seems that the e-book device wars may be heating up. Publisher’s Weekly recently posted two articles about contenders to the Kindle:
1.) Sony’s wireless device – the Sony Daily Edition
2.) A joint venture between Barnes & Noble and IREX Technologies to produce a new wireless-enabled digital reading device with access to the 700,000 e-book titles
It will be interesting to see how this competition plays out.
On the surface, this reminds me of the battle between VHS and Beta, so I wondered if the winner would be the one providing the best content. However, it appears that all of the competing devices will provide substantial content.
What do you think? Will it come down to specific features? Price? Ease of accessing the content?
Will adoption rates provide significant demand for each to maintain a critical customer base or will one or two dominant players emerge?
It should be fun to watch.
