All about e-paper

The word Kindle makes me think of burning books

November 18, 2007

All branding aside, the oncoming launch of Amazon’s e-paper device essentially begins the practical discussion about e-paper in earnest.
Books are a neat trick, but I’m pretty exclusively thinking in terms of the future of newspapers here.
Things to pay attention to:

EVDO: This device has ubiquitous Internet access when in cell range. That’s good. [...]

$100 million for e-paper firm – maybe you should start thinking about the future

January 8, 2007

Red Herring reports a British e-paper company locked up $100 million in venture capital.
“The company plans to build the plant, with an initial capacity of a million displays a year, in the eastern Germany city of Dresden and start production in 2008. The company said demand for electronic readers is expected to climb to 41.6 [...]

Note to newspaper companies: Keep your print layout off my screen

May 8, 2006

Hey guys, let’s make a deal: You stop trying to paste an old media model (print layout) on a new medium (e-paper, UMPC, tabletPC), and I’ll keep reading the stories I want to read, when I want to read them, either via RSS feeds from your paper, or when a blog I trust links [...]

New York Times on e-paper

April 24, 2006

“One Day Soon, Straphangers May Turn Pages With a Button”
The New York Times reports on the move some newspapers are already making to e-paper:
“This is only one test of new e-paper devices competing to become the iPod of the newspaper business. Other e-paper trials are being undertaken by the paper Les Echos, which is based [...]

Your paperboy called. He says he’s made of fiberoptic cable. And your micropayment is late.

April 5, 2006

Here’s why the “but-I-like-inky-fingers” crowd should relax: After most news organizations get their online operations in full swing, but before newsprint goes completely extinct, e-paper will emerge as the daily medium for information. This is old news, but with all the hand-wringing over what to do about a business model for the new [...]