Electronic Ink Archive

  • Sony: E-books are here to stay (so get used to it)

    Sony: E-books are here to stay (so get used to it)

    Sony says there will be more digital book content than physical book content within five years. Or, in English, e-books will overtake "regular" books by 2015. This is terrible news for people like Devin and John, people who appreciate books not merely for the words they contain but for the form they take. It's less of an issue for people like me, people who are, in fact, merely interested in reading the words, whether they're on paper or papyrus or on an e-ink screen.

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  • The ‘Alex’ E-book Reader: Electronic ink, secondary color Android touchscreen

    The ‘Alex’ E-book Reader: Electronic ink, secondary color Android touchscreen

    Announced today, the Alex E-book Reader is an interesting take on electronic books. The upper third of the device features a standard 6-inch electronic ink screen similar to Amazon’s Kindle and then the bottom part sports a 3.5-inch color touchscreen running Android (1.6). The two screens can be harmonized by taking a web page you’ve [...]

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  • Kindle outsells everything else on Amazon

    Kindle outsells everything else on Amazon

    Amazon is mighty proud of its Kindle. So much so that the retailer outed a press release proclaiming that the Kindle is the best selling device on Amazon.com and even pre-Cyber Monday, November was its best selling month so far. Nook what?

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  • Colorful, Magnetic Microspheres Could Make New Kind of Display

    Colorful, Magnetic Microspheres Could Make New Kind of Display

    Research into color-changing nanoparticles could pave the way for a new kind of display technology. A breakthrough promises tiny molecules that can change color in response to an external magnetic field that can be used to create outdoor displays and posters. “We have developed a new way to induce color change in materials that can be [...]

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  • Why E-Books Are Stuck in a Black-and-White World

    Why E-Books Are Stuck in a Black-and-White World

    Electronic book readers may be the future of publishing, but in one important respect, they’re still stuck in 1950: Almost every e-book reader on the market has a black-and-white display. Most can’t display more than a handful of different shades of gray. That’s why display makers are racing to bring color to the world of e-books. [...]

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