EReaders

With the further advancements of the tablets and smartphones, the questions arises if the ereader is seeing its last days and will go in the bin with the outdated technology. The reasoning: Full-featured tablets can read e-books and do a whole lot more, and the price gap between e-readers and cheap tablets has narrowed, so it’s harder to justify buying a single-purpose reader like the Kindle Paperwhite or Nook Simple Touch. While it is easy to just chalk it up and say it is done, the fact remains that they are still cheap, easy to read in sunlight, and the battery lasts forever. Since they are still going to be around, web and app developers are still working with the ereaders. For e-readers, the future probably looks a lot like it does for the dedicated MP3 player, and that’s far from catastrophic.