Print Week: Book group dismisses e-paper threat
Saturday, 25 October 2008, 17:44
"CPI, the owner of the UK's largest group of book printers, has dismissed the threat of e-paper products … Mike Taylor, chief executive of CPI, said: "I don't see much of a future for these kind of devices. People like to have something they can, for example, take on the beach without the worry of battery life or lighting conditions."
Reuters: E-readers face tough competition
Monday, 20 October 2008, 21:38
"… mobile phones could prove more popular as a display for reading digital content than e-readers as most people already have one, and they provide opportunities for readers to interact."
Silicon.com: ‘In the future only Jeremy Clarkson will read newspapers’
Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 14:32
"Piers Morgan believes print papers will go the way of the dodo, with electronic readers stepping in to take their place. Speaking last night at a showcase for the Palm Treo Pro, Morgan likened the future of print newspapers to that of vinyl records."
BBC News: The revolution of paperless paper
Wednesday, 15 October 2008, 07:16
Steven Rosenberg on the Plastic Logic e-reader "onto it you can download hundreds of newspapers and - at the touch of a button - browse through them quite safely, without elbowing anyone ever again." (Err…. Why just download "newspapers"? This seems to be the most flawed assumption in many reports on e-paper devices - that people will only use them for one type of content.)
Guardian: Scientists aim to deliver e-paper in full computerised colour
Thursday, 2 October 2008, 07:49
"Scientists in Cambridge have launched a £12m three-year project to create the next generation of e-paper, which may herald the arrival of fully interactive, all-colour computerised newspapers and magazines."
New York Times: New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper
Monday, 8 September 2008, 21:37
"The [Plastic Logic newspaper reader] device, which is unnamed, uses the same technology as the Sony eReader and Amazon.com’s Kindle, a highly legible black-and-white display developed by the E Ink Corporation. While both of those devices are intended primarily as book readers, Plastic Logic’s device, which will be shown at an emerging technology trade show in San Diego, has a screen more than twice as large. The size of a piece of copier paper, it can be continually updated via a wireless link, and can store and display hundreds of pages of newspapers, books and documents."
Marketing Week: Times launches fee-based web and mobile services
Thursday, 4 September 2008, 07:00
"Times Media plans to increase revenue from its website and mobile platform by launching more transactional services. The publisher's focus on digital also includes launching a site specifically designed for the Apple iPhone, and the trialing of an "e-paper" version of its newspaper through Amazon's Kindle e-book reader."
Tech-On: Bridgestone, Newspaper Firm Start Testing E-paper Signage
Saturday, 23 August 2008, 09:06
Remember that ugly broadsheet-sized epaper thing from Bridgestone from a few months ago? Apparently they're using it for large advertising signage on the Tokyo underground. Suddenly it makes a lot more sense.Jack Schofield: Is the Kindle ebook reader becoming Amazon’s iPod? | Technology | The Guardian
Friday, 15 August 2008, 17:43
"Citigroup analyst Mark Mahaney has just doubled his projections for Kindle sales to 378,000 units for this year, 934,000 next year and 4.4m in 2010. "Turns out the Kindle is becoming the iPod of the book world," he told Citigroup clients."
Spiegel Online: Deutsche Telekom testing electronic newspaper
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 05:43
Spiegel Online reports that Deutsche Telekom is set to introduce an e-paper device. The 'News4Me' device is to be tested in the autumn. Just one problem: It doesn't have a news content partner yet…
Spiegel Online: Deutsche Telekom testing electronic newspaper
Tuesday, 5 August 2008, 05:43
Spiegel Online reports that Deutsche Telekom is set to introduce an e-paper device. The 'News4Me' device is to be tested in the autumn. Just one problem: It doesn't have a news content partner yet…
TechCrunch: We Know How Many Kindles Amazon Has Sold: 240,000
Saturday, 2 August 2008, 08:08
"240,000 Kindles have been shipped since November, according to a source close to Amazon with direct knowledge of the numbers."
Tuesday, 22 July 2008, 16:57
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US Esquire is going to have a battery-powered cover made by E-Ink, tghe company behind Kindle. “This is really the 1.0 version,” Kevin O’Malley, Esquire’s publisher tells the NYT. “Imagine when the consumer walks by a newsstand and sees that it
Sunday, 6 July 2008, 06:48
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"The Readius will be introduced in England, Italy and Germany this fall, and in the United States early in 2009… The price is not yet set, but … Readius would be more expensive than the Kindle, which now is selling for $359."
