Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education.
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. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
“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 [...]
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 [...]