Kindle Flickr photo by AGeekMom (Kindle is one type of e-ink reader related to this news)
I would expect to see continued innovation in the E Ink market. In my opinion, the ultimate presentation of graphic content will require more dynamic color and presentation.
Taiwanese display maker Prime View International will buy E Ink, the company that developed the ‘electronic paper’ used in digital book readers from Amazon.com and Sony.
Prime View said on Monday it would pay about $215m for E Ink, whose flexible digital displays are used in Amazon’s Kindle and the Sony Reader. Privately held E Ink emerged from a Massachusetts Institute of Technology laboratory about a decade ago. source: http://kn.theiet.org/news/jun09/pvi-eink.cfm
Has our digital lifestyle created an environment fort short story and article based information exchanges? Considering I’m always typing to conserve characters because I don’t want to overshoot my micro-blogging 140 character limit, perhaps “yes.”
And soon the Kindle and other eReaders will be part of every living room and business office. The book business will either learn to thrive on digital mediums or be left standing, wondering what hit them, like newspapers. Without an image, it’s likely that half the people that started reading this two paragraph blog have already left… All due respect to real writers that would have us gripping our eReader for the “next page” button.
Jacket Copy Blog
“Magazine articles are the new books,” Tina Brown said, referring to the public’s shrinking appetite for long-form publishing and looking like Lady Di in her chic bob and magenta power suit.
