Prestigio, a developer and manufacturer of electronic devices, including devices for reading electronic books, has released a further update to its application for downloading and reading electronic books – the Prestigio eReader 3.0. ASBIS Africa is the sole distributor of Prestigio in South Africa.
The first version of the application was announced in March of last year and over the past year, the company has released two upgrades, which have won increasing popularity among more than 130,000 users worldwide.
“The new version of the Prestigio eReader differs from the previous one in that it supports Adobe DRM technology, which in turn allows its users (without any additional actions) to read books from leading online shops such as Amazon,” says Juri Antoshkin, Prestigio executive director.
“These books are usually protected with DRM technology to prevent the copying of their products. Moreover, in contrast to other applications with similar functionality, the Prestigio eReader 3.0 is available for installation absolutely free.”
Main advantages of Prestigio eReader 3.0:
* Direct access to one of the largest online shops of electronic books Prestigio Plaza (eBooks.PrestigioPlaza.com), which contains more than 620 000 e-books in 17 categories in 22 languages;
* Support of HTML, PDF, EPUB, FB2, RTF, TXT, PDF formats with Adobe DRM;
* Support for 22 languages – English, Russian, Croatian, Hungarian, Latvian, Romanian, Slovak, Serbian, Bulgarian, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian, Belarusian, Greek;
* Texts font optimisation – style, size, text colour and background colour;
* Intuitive navigation via turning pages or clicking on display;
* Setting up a personal collection in four parameters, by author, by title, by tags or according to the latest read book;
* Ability to create several private collections and rename, add, delete and move books from one collection to another;
* Ability to select text and to send it by SMS, e-mail, Facebook or other services;
* Ability to translate stand-alone words and selected passages with the built-in dictionary; and
* Setting up and switching night/day reading modes.
“Prestigio’s goal is not so much about offering the market modern and stylish devices on which to read, but more about the solutions developed for these devices, with which our users can easily adapt in the world of digital content, create personal libraries and comfortably spend time reading their favourite books. So we will continue to make every effort to meet their expectations,” says Antoshkin.
