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The full report on tablets and e-book readers appears in the September issue of Consumer Reports and online at www.ConsumerReports.org . Check back on the website frequently for additional buying tips and Ratings updates.

While the iPad and Kindle still earned high scores, they now have company at the top of the Ratings. The Galaxy Tab 10.1, a new 10-inch tablet from Samsung, almost matched the iPad 2, Apple's newest tablet, in screen quality and, like all Android-based tablets, it supports the Flash videos used by many websites. And a new version of Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book reader, the Simple Touch, outscored the Kindle in Consumer Reports' Ratings, offering touch-screen navigation and a lighter weight than the Amazon device. It's the first time since the Kindle's launch that it's been outscored overall by another e-book reader.  

"The days are over when you needed to consider only two names to make the best choice for you: iPad and Kindle," said , electronics editor for Consumer Reports . "That said, the additional fine choices have not eliminated mediocrity from the market; there are still middling performers at the bottom of both the tablet and e-book reader Ratings."  

Other devices, sometimes dubbed "tablet readers," offer consumers a combination of tablet and e-reader traits. These hybrids place a heavy focus on reading, but also include tablet-like features such as color screen and access to a selection of apps. One such example is Barnes & Noble's Nook Color, which is the top-scoring color model in Consumer Reports' tests. (Tablets offer the option to download e-book reading apps, including those from Kindle and Nook.)

For people looking to add more variety to their reading lists, on any type of device, a number of free e-book options are available for e-book readers. Hundreds of thousands of public-domain editions of many classic titles published before 1923 have been digitized by Google and offered up to the public as free downloads.

Other sources of free e-books include the e-bookstores for the Kindle, Nook, Sony Reader and Kobo devices and apps. Some public libraries also offer e-book readers, including Nook and Sony models, the option to borrow e-books with a local library card after downloading the free Adobe Digital Editions computer software.

Sony e-Book Reader will be Launched in August 2011 | Technology ...

Sony Corp. (SNE), the largest Japanese electronics company plans to produce an updated digital book readers in the United States from August 2011. Sony Reader, which had previously been about U.S. $ 180 – $ 300 will be reviewed in hardware and software. Phil Lubell, vice president of digital reading of Sony Electronics said in an interview in San Francisco. New products from Sony, will be introduced to U.S. consumers tablet before Sony entered the market later this year.

Tokyo-based company plans to boost sales of the Sony Reader to reach the digital electronic book reader in mind the price is cheaper than the price of the tablet. Sony seems to struggle to expand its e-reader as fast as the original business plan from Sony. Operation of digital books can be low due to the presence of a number of the new tablet later this year, there was an overlap between the tablet and the electronic reader. According to the Pew Research Center survey, the number of Americans with electronic devices like the Kindle, has doubled in the last six months until last May. They are college graduates and adults who have chosen to place the device into a Tablet PC.

Twelve percent of respondents had an e-reader in May 2011, up 6 percent compared to November 2010, while 8 percent have tablets in May 2011, 5 percent in the last six months. iPad the cheapest price 67 percent more expensive than the Sony Reader is the highest price. Sony also plans to incorporate an online bookstore and e-book technology in both computer models of Sony the last tablet, S1 and S2, as part of a suite of Sony multimedia applications. Since late in the tablet market, Sony is risking them self using Google’s Android operating system in order to compete in the segment of the computer industry is growing very fast.

Sony Electronics President Phil Molyneux told reporters in San Francisco, said the company plans to differentiate its products from its two main competitors are the devices using the Android platform, ie, Samsung Electronics Co., HTC Corp. and Motorola Mobility Holdings Inc., by adding the ability to download games from PlayStation Suite, film and music subscription services.

Sony prices tablets, each candle 5.5 inches and 9.4 inches, the tablet will be higher than other products. Sony expects the market for tablet computers worldwide annual sales reach 50 million to 60 million units this year, 70 million-80 million units in 2012. Sony was planning to develop three-dimensional screen in upcoming products.

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