E-Ink technology is currently focusing on color displays and also on e-ink for flexible plastic displays. Although E Ink research has a way to go to get close the quality of color achievable with LCD, HP Labs is well advanced in its development of flexible displays for roll-up screens. When the two will come together is anybody’s guess, but it just might be sooner than later.
1The Rise and Fall of E-Readers: are the Days of Dedicated Devices Numbered?
The quick success of the iPad has indicated that the future is bleak for dedicated e-readers such as the Kindle or the Nook. But is this really true, or is it a misreading of a situation that might have been created by an interest in modern technology that will not be extended to paying high prices for e-book-reading hardware?
0Turning Book to Digital is the Future
Q: What do a PC manufacturer (Apple), TV maker (Sony), search engine (Google), and a book retailer (Amazon, B&N) have in common?
A: They’re all jumping into the same pond – the ebook/ereader pond.
Not only that, smartphones, cellphones…
2Bound Books or eBooks: Price or Sensation?
There is currently an issue over the relative cost of regular bound books and their digital equivalents. Many feel that eBooks should be priced cheaper than they are now, although an analysis of the relative costs of the two do not bear this out. Were eBooks to become too inexpensive…
1Light Years Ahead In The Blink Of An Eye With Color E-inc Technology
James L. Brown, Tampela Book Club.
Technology sure has come a long way. It seems like we keep making leaps in light years of advance especially when it comes to doing away with all of the popular old familiars when it comes to print media. One minute we had books on…
5E-Book Readers and E-Ink: their Past, Present and Future
E-Ink is not an ink as such, but a form of encapsulation used in eBook Readers. Ink has been used for thousands of years, and the principle of ink upon paper to convey thoughts, ideas and messages is a sound one. Paper is easy to carry around, and does not…
1An Introduction to Popular E-book File Formats
As we know there are various devices for reading e-books, there are also popular file formats associated with several of such devices. There have always been debates as to which is the best among them, though each of these formats has its own advantages and disadvantages. Some of the popular…
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