PocketBook is a multinational company which produces
e-book reader
An e-reader, also called an e reader or e device, is a Mobile computing, mobile electronic device that is designed primarily for the purpose of reading digital e-books and Periodical literature, periodicals.
Any device that can display text on ...
s based on
E Ink
E Ink (electronic ink) is a brand of electronic paper (e-paper) display technology commercialized by the E Ink Corporation, which was co-founded in 1997 by MIT undergraduates JD Albert and Barrett Comiskey, MIT Media Lab professor Joseph Jacobs ...
technology (an electronic paper technology) under the ''PocketBook'' brand. The company was founded in 2007 in Kyiv, Ukraine, and its headquarters were shifted to Lugano, Switzerland in 2012. These devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read
e-books
An ebook (short for electronic book), also spelled as e-book or eBook, is a book publication made available in electronic form, consisting of text, images, or both, readable on the flat-panel display of computers or other electronic devices. A ...
, newspapers, magazines and other
digital media
In mass communication, digital media is any media (communication), communication media that operates in conjunction with various encoded machine-readable data formats. Digital content can be created, viewed, distributed, modified, listened to, an ...
via wireless networking to the PocketBook Store.
Development and manufacture
The devices are assembled by factories such as Foxconn, Wisky and Yitoa and shipped out to more than 40 countries.
Device list
Models from the same family sometimes use the same model numbers, such as:
* Touch HD PB631...
* Touch HD 2 PB631-2...
Sales geography
The company's products are sold in 35 countries worldwide – in Central, Eastern, and Western
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere. It is bordered by the Arctic Ocean to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Mediterranean Sea to the south, and Asia to the east ...
, in
Baltic
Baltic may refer to:
Peoples and languages
*Baltic languages, a subfamily of Indo-European languages, including Lithuanian, Latvian and extinct Old Prussian
*Balts (or Baltic peoples), ethnic groups speaking the Baltic languages and/or originatin ...
and
Commonwealth of Independent States
The Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS) is a regional organization, regional intergovernmental organization in Eurasia. It was formed following the dissolution of the Soviet Union, dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. It covers an ar ...
countries, as well as in Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and others. , PocketBook claimed it had sold over two million e-reader and tablet devices.
[ January 21, 2014]
History
See also
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Comparison of e-book readers
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Comparison of tablet computers
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Tablet computer
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets, being computers ...
References
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Electronics companies of Switzerland
Dedicated ebook devices
Tablet computers
Android (operating system) devices
Linux-based devices
Electronic paper technology
Information technology companies of Switzerland
Computer companies established in 2007
Electronics companies established in 2007
Ukrainian companies established in 2007
Foxconn