Most Popular e-Book Readers

Kindleby Amazon Inc

• Founded: 1994• Founded by: Jeff Bezos• Headquarters: Seattle, WA• Employees: 97,000• Industry: online retailer• Brands: Kindle Fire e-Reader, Zappos,

Goodread

Amazon Inc

• Ownership: Publicly Traded• Where: NASDAQ• Symbol: AMZN• Annual Revenue: $61.09 billion• Website: amazon.com• Tagline: “…… and you’re done”• Alexa rating: 10

Nookby Barnes & Noble Inc

• Founded: 1873• Founded by: Charles Barnes, Clifford Noble• Headquarters: New York, NY• Employees: 30,000• Industry: book retailer• Brands: Nook e-Reader

Barnes & Noble Inc

• Ownership: Publicly Traded• Where: NYSE• Symbol: BKS• Annual Revenue: $7.129 billion• Website: barnesandnoble.com• Tagline: If We Don’t Have Your Book, Nobody

Does• Alexa rating: 861

Koboby Kobo Inc

• Founded: 2009• Founded by: Rakuten Inc• Headquarters: Toronto, Ontario, Canada• Employees: 10,351• Industry: online retailer• Brands: Kobo e-Reader

Kobo Inc

• Ownership: Rakuten Inc, Tokyo, Japan• Where: Publicly traded at JASDAQ• Symbol: 4755• Annual Revenue: $4.7 billion• Website: kobo.com• Tagline: We Help You Buy• Alexa rating: 4,696

Sony Readerby Sony Corporation

• Founded: 1946• Founded by: Masaru Ibuka, Akio Morita• Headquarters: Tokyo, Japan• Employees: 146,300• Industry: electronics, gaming, entertainment• Brands: Sony Reader, Playstation, Bravia,

VAIO, Walkman, Cyber-Shot and others

Sony Corporation

• Ownership: Publicly Traded• Where: TYO and NYSE• Symbol: 6758 and SNE• Annual Revenue: $72.349 billion• Tagline: Make Believe• Alexa rating: 1,621

Sources for Most Popular e-Book Readers

• Consumerreports.org• Cnet.com/reviews• Pcmag.com• Wikipedia.com