A través de la historia del libro se exploran sus distintos soportes hasta centrarnos en el eReader como principal elemento a estudiar en un entorno donde el eBook cuenta con aceptación en el público, a diferencia del dispositivo, el cual es uno de los menos utilizados para llevar a cabo la lectura. El caso de estudio se centra en evaluar la usabilidad del eReader para identificar puntos de mejora apegados al tema y probar su funcionamiento en un trabajo de campo que engloba sujetos de diferentes países de habla hispana con el objetivo de proponer un diseño de interfaz.

Amazon.com, Inc. (AMZN), headquartered in Seattle, Washington, is the world’s largest online retailer (Jopson, 1). The company’s website launched in the United States in 1994 by Jeffrey Bezos as an online bookstore, later diversified to offer a broad line of products in multiple warehouses across the US. With successful expansion, Amazon.com is now available worldwide in Canada, the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Spain, Japan, Brazil and China (SECdatabase, 50). The company directly sells or acts as a third – party to deliver the products to customers. As of the first quarter in 2011, Amazon has approximately 137 million active customers worldwide (Szkutak, 1). In 2007, CEO Jeff Bezos lead Amazon in a new direction by introducing the eReaderKindle, offering a new platform for digital books and other e-print media. The Kindle allows users to read, shop for, download and browse eBooks, newspaper, magazines, blogs and websites using Wi-Fi. The 3G Kindle uses Sprint’s 3G cellular services to allow immediate customer purchase and download from the Amazon Kindle store, with no connectivity charges. The base model e-ink Kindle features a 6” screen, while the Kindle DX has a 10” screen and the newly introduced Kindle Fire has 7” multi-touch colored screen. The Kindle is designed for people who favor a small, compact electronic device to carry in their pockets or bags. The purpose of this paper is to detail the development, technology, opportunities as well as challenges associated with Amazon Kindle in relate to the publishing industry. The paper also discusses whether the 6” eReader device will change reading habits and its impact on hardcopy publishing businesses worldwide.

The diploma thesis "M-technologies in education and in the management of Primary schools in the Moravian-Silesian region" deals with modern technologies in the context of education and in the context of school management. The theoretical part summarizes the basic theoretical information about m-technologies and other modern technologies which then comes the part of research of the thesis which is focused on facilities and use of modern technologies ICT in education and in the management of Primary schools in the Moravian-Silesian region. Questionnaire results and research about using modern technologies in education and in school management are the focus of the practical part. The thesis deals with level of implementation and use of m-technologies and other modern technologies in primary schools. KEYWORDS: information and communication technologies; m-technologies; tablet; smartphone; eReader; interactive whiteboard; dataprojector; data box; information system