PocketBook International
PocketBook is a brand for electronic reading devices ( e -book reader ) the international company PocketBook International SA.
Manufacturer
PocketBook Reader are manufactured by PocketBook International, one in Switzerland ( Lugano) based multinational company. The headquarters in the U.S. is located in Overland Park, Kansas City in Kansas. The German subsidiary PocketBook Reader GmbH was founded in 2009 and is located in the Saxon Radebeul. The devices are manufactured at Foxconn in Taiwan.
Pocket Book is among the world's leading manufacturers of e- book readers. Until August 2012 a total of 1.5 million units were produced and sold in more than 24 countries. Pocket Books are the most popular electronic books in the successor states of the USSR and one of the five top-selling brands in the industry in Western Europe, for Germany seeks to 25 % market share.
The company operates an e -book store, which also contains thousands of German e-books with " store.obreey.com ".
History
The "Ukrainian Printing Group " and "MOST Publishing House " founded 2007, PocketBook brand. The first international trade fair of the Pocketbook was at the IFA 2009.
The first Pocket Book was introduced September 2008 at the Ukrainian and Russian market. These were to the PocketBook 301 The PocketBook 360 ° was first sold in August 2009. Both models are to be acquired since December 2, 2009 on the German market. In February 2010 the 302 came on the market, which also has a touch screen and Wi-Fi.
As of November 2010, the models PocketBook Pro 603 and 903 in Germany additionally available, which can be served with an accompanying stylus across the inductive touch screen, and the models PocketBook Pro 602 and 902, which do not have a touch screen. With the PocketBook Touch 622 (available since the end of 2011), a reader with capacitive touch screen including Wi-Fi is offered. Since June 2013 is available with the PocketBook Touch Lux an e- ink reader with switchable LED front light.
Specifications
The Pocket Book series works with various formats, with most devices can also audiobooks can be heard and music can be played in MP3 format: In addition to the EPUB format (including DRM support ) read the device even PDF ( with DRM) RTF, ASCII text, HTML, FB2 ( FB2.zip ), CHM and DjVu. In addition the image formats JPEG, BMP, PNG, TIFF are supported. RSS feeds can be displayed on the devices. Many models also support the MP3 format. The pocketbook is as basic open source a software, the operating system based on Linux. Large parts of the system are only as executable files without the possibility of modification.
Special
The system is touted as particularly open and available under the GPL license. After some initial difficulties, the developers have now made available for download the source code and an SDK. The exchange of the kernel to an open system is prevented by the use of cryptographic signatures.