Samsung Launches Kindle E-Book also challenge the nation.

Reuters news agency reported. Monday when Samsung announced the launch of e-book Reader, the company has a small compact portable convenience. It will begin shipping within South Korea. The news reports indicated that E-Book's content will come from a network of local bookstores.

SNE-50K E-Book is the latest from Sumsung price is 339,000 won, with size 5-inch touch screen (Kindle screen size is 6 inches), the user can write. Notes and stored messages. On page E-Book. Within the device memory is 512MB (box card and no more memory) than the Sony Reader in the same price level but less than the Amazon.com Kindle at the same time the E-Book readers Sumsung. Some are just 9 mm and weight only 6.5 oz. Kindle vs. weighted 10 oz.

However, Samsung is in between the different versions. Reader's E-Book. To be able to sell to other countries by the executive said. The company intends to show a prototype at the industry trade show last month in January next year. The company also Ehraha with publishers. And shop for concert Ten List of E-Book. Jump into the battlefield, this E-Book. Explore not just only by Lew Jae-Young, vice president of Samsung Electronics also said again that the "We are looking for ways to market players in E-Book larger than Amazon and Sony".

In South Korea. Samsung has partnered with online bookstores Kyobo Bookstore Co., One of the network's largest bookstore. Books available for download. Today, the shop which has approximately 2,500 Title E-Book E-Book to the price of the book is about a 40% majority will perch Ten List with South Korea, however, the E-Book Reader the Samsung will not support downloads. Wireless Or connected to the Internet. Like Kindle's Amazon. And some manufacturers. But customers will use to download E-Book on the PC. And transfer to the E-Book readers another one

In addition, the Samsung also offers additional information that Software within the E-Book readers can display documents created by office programs (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and Microsoft's PDF Adobe Systems.

* Update: If compared Spec E-Book Reader with Samsung's Kindle, Amazon's treasure, especially if several of memory, 512MB of the SNE-50K E-Book can only enter 400 books (8,000 memo). While Kindle 4GB insert bookmarks, e-books, or about 3,500 to as much as 8 launched in South Korea starting this month.