People are still purchasing paper books -- in 2010, U.S. sales of paper books reached more than 2.57 billion -- but people also want many of their books on their mobile devices, says Hiroshi Nakano, CEO of 1DollarScan.
The new Fine Tune technology make those scanned documents even easier to read. Nakano said the Fine Tune technology makes the PDFs "faster to peruse, (with) better resolution, and better color quality than 'normal' PDFs from other scanning solutions."
"Fine Tune technology enables consumers to view their digitized content faster and at higher resolutions on every major ereader device, including all Android and Apple iOS devices, Amazon Kindle, Barnes & Noble Nook, Sony Readers," the company said in a news release, adding that Fine Tune support for the third-generation iPad will soon be available.
The only real issue consumers might see with using 1DollarScan as opposed to buying an at-home scanner (besides being time-consuming) is that the company shreds and recycles books after it's finished scanning them, so forget getting your book back.
1DollarScan is operated by zLibro, Inc., located in San Jose, Calif., is an affiliate of BookScan Japan, one of the largest digital scanning services in Japan with more than 200 employees. 1DollarScan says it's the most affordable content scanning service on the market, with scans costing about $1 per 100 pages.
In January 2011, Ion Audio announced a device that consumers could use at home to scan a 200-page book in about 15 minutes for $150. That device could turn books into ereader format and you could keep the book, but it was cancelled shortly after the announcement. However, 1DollarScan's new technology might make PDFs more appealing.
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