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Competition in the market of electronic readers will be very strict, when Sharp plans to launch an e-book reader this year. According to a Japanese company, the e-book is expected to boost the electronic book market has been dominated by the hegemony of the Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader and the Apple iPad, even though the Japanese market. As a first step to marketing in the United States, Sharp took the same job with the largest mobile operator Verizon Wireless.

Although Sharp desires it so strong, they were having problems. One of the constraints on the electronic book is not all the e-book file formats can be opened on a particular device because they have a file format that electronic publishing is different. Later Sharp-made e-book will read files in the new version XMDF, the format developed by Sharp and is used in some previous devices. In addition, the e-book is also added with support for reading the multimedia data and allows audio and video that will be entered into the e-book pages. Original format of XMDF can now be accepted and become the international standard for e-publishing (IEC62448), although its use is still quite limited to Japanese territory.

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