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The Sony Reader was a line of e-book readers manufactured by Sony, who invented the first commercial E Ink e-reader with the Sony Librie in 2004.

It used an electronic paper display developed by E Ink Corporation, was viewable in direct sunlight, required no power to maintain a static image, and was usable in portrait or landscape orientation.

iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system.

The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010; the most recent iPad models are the 9.7-inch iPad Pro released on March 31, 2016 and the iPad Mini 4, released on September 9, 2015.

The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard.

The iPad includes built-in Wi-Fi and cellular connectivity on select models.

As of January 2015, there have been over 250 million iPads sold.

iPad tablets are second most popular, by sales, against Android-based ones, since 2013, when Android tablet sales increased by 127%.

The Amazon Kindle is a series of e-readers designed and marketed by Amazon.com.

Amazon Kindle devices enable users to browse, buy, download, and read e-books, newspapers, magazines and other digital media via wireless networking to the Kindle Store.

The hardware platform, developed by Amazon subsidiary Lab126, began as a single device and now comprises a range of devices, including e-readers with E Ink electronic paper displays, Android-based tablets with color LCD screens and Kindle applications on all major computing platforms.

All Kindle devices integrate with Kindle Store content and as of January 2017, the store has over five million e-books available in the US.

EPUB is an e-book file format with the extension that can be downloaded and read on devices like smartphones, tablets, computers, or e-readers.

It is a technical standard published by the International Digital Publishing Forum (IDPF).

The term is short for electronic publication and is sometimes styled ePub.

EPUB became an official standard of the IDPF in September 2007, superseding the older Open eBook standard.

The Book Industry Study Group endorses EPUB 3 as the format of choice for packaging content and has stated that the global book publishing industry should rally around a single standard.

EPUB is the most widely supported vendor-independent XML-based (as opposed to PDF) e-book format; that is, it is supported by the largest number of hardware readers.

Digital rights management (DRM) schemes are various access control technologies that are used to restrict usage of proprietary hardware and copyrighted works.

DRM technologies try to control the use, modification, and distribution of copyrighted works (such as software and multimedia content), as well as systems within devices that enforce these policies.