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After years of promises and false starts, booksellers and technology companies are diving into the world of digital books. Sony
After years of promises and false starts, booksellers and technology companies are diving into the world of digital books. Sony
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2013-04-22
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After years of promises and false starts, booksellers and technology companies are diving into the world of digital books. Sony Corp is selling the Reader Digital Book for $299, while giant online shopping company Amazon. com offers the Kindle for$399.
New readers are lighter than the average hardback fiction bestseller, easy on the eyes and let readers carry around as many as 200 titles in hardware that weighs less than a pound. But to some people, there’s something missing. "It’s, I guess, the feel of holding a book that someone really put a lot of effort into writing, and you kind of lose that a little bit with a digital product," said Katy Farina,21 ,of Montgomery, New Jersey. Farina, a student at the Minneapolis college of Art & Design, was browsing at the Borders bookstore near Madison Square garden. As shoppers lined up at closing time, the subtle, comforting aroma of books permeated the store. “It feels real, whereas (the reader) kind of separates you a little bit from the story” Farina said the story,
Harry Howe, who had picked up Surrender Is Not an Option by former U. S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton, said he might use an e-book reader for blog or Web site material that he wanted to read while away from home, but not for reading a novel. "It’s just not a physical experience that I’m yet comfortable with," said Howe, 55, who teaches accounting at the State University of New York’s Geneseo campus and lives in Rochester. "On the other hand, I didn’t grow up reading things on various Web sites." Farina said she would like a reader for traveling because she would not have to transport so many books. This is something that Harper Collins Publishers Worldwide Chief Executive Jane Friedman said is a prime advantage. "To put 10 books on your Sony reader or on your Kindle is a lot better than carrying 10 books," she said. Readers often shy away from using the devices until they discover how pleas- ant reading on them can be, Friedman said.
Neither Sony nor Amazon would say how many machines they have sold, but enough people apparently are interested in trying them out. An Amazon executive at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week said the Kindle sold out on its first day in five and a half hours.
Buying books for the Kindle is as easy as using Amazon to buy regular books, with the price often being a few dollars cheaper because of the absence of a physical product and titles available through a wire- less download.① Sony’s e-book Store offers downloads through its own software to a buyer’s PC. The volumes are then sent from the PC to a Reader Digital Book through a USB cable. And for people wavering between paper and pixels, Sony does offer a concession--an optional leather cover. "I think it’s a shrewd move," said Howe. "How retro is that!"
Which of the following is NOT an advantage of readers mentioned in the passage?
选项
A、Portability.
B、Amusement.
C、Cheapness.
D、Big memory.
答案
B
解析
事实细节题。本题需判断哪一个信息在原文中没有出现过。便携性、大容量,以及低价位在文中都多次提到过,只有B “娱乐性”并不是文中所提到的电子图书的优势所在。
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