The E-Reader Explosion

By almost any imaginable definition, last week was the newsiest ever in the still-new world of e-book readers. We witnessed the unveiling of Barnes & Noble’s ambitious Nook. We got more details about Plastic Logic’s long-awaited device. We learned of an underdog known as the Spring Design Alex. We were informed that Amazon was killing the original Kindle 2 and lowering the price of the model with international roaming, and saw a demo of an upcoming Amazon Kindle reader application for Windows (a Mac version is also in the works). In short, the era in which it was logical to use "Kindle" as shorthand for “book-reading gizmo” is over. It seems like a good time, then, to put some basic facts and figures about a bunch of major and/or new e-reader competitors in one place.

Technologizer.com