Sharp Reader Ebook Will Launch This YearSharp Japanese companies plan to enter the e-book reader market is increasingly competitive at the end of the year 2010 with a new eBook reader device that can read the file formats new e-publishing himself from Sharp.
Sharp will launch an e-book reader in Japan before the end of the year and will also do a launch outside of Japan. EBook reader device, which detail the specifications is not specified by the Sharp company, is likely to enter the United States after Japan and Sharp said it had started talks with Verizon Wireless.
Ebook start receiving a share in the market thanks to the success of devices such as Amazon.com Kindle, Sony Reader and the Apple iPad. Kindle Price recently cut a three-fold increase device sales and Amazon.com said on Monday that the company is now selling more than ebook Kindle hardcover books.
However, despite the growing popularity, the market remains divided between several electronic publishing file formats. Amazon.com Kindle uses a proprietary format and not compatible with ePub format commonly used on other devices.
Sharp e-book reader will read the files in the new version XMDF (ever-Extending Mobile Document Format) format, developed by Sharp and is used in some previous devices.
The new version adds support for multimedia data and will allow the audio and video that will be entered into the e-book pages.
The original version of XMDF accepted into the international standard for e-publishing (IEC62448), although its use is still very limited in Japan.
Readers for the format XMDF available for Windows PC, Sharp electronic dictionary, handheld computers, mobile phones and televisions Sharp Aquos. Sharp opened the online store for XMDF-format electronic book that has more than 29,000 titles from several major Japanese publishers.
Sharp said the ebook reader has not decided whether he'll support other formats besides XMDF.
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