Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

Hearst's Seattle PI to Test Market E-Paper

Posted by Zonk on from the they-get-all-the-rain-and-now-a-cool-epaper-too-bah dept.

NewsCloud writes "The Hearst Corporation plans to use the Seattle Post-Intelligencer to test market LG Philipps' recently announced flexible color E-Paper. 'The electronic P-I will carry real-time news, same as the Internet, not yesterday's news like traditional papers. Readers will turn the e-paper's pages by touching the flexible screen. And when those readers head off to work, they will roll up the electronic P-I and stuff it in their pocket, purse, or briefcase.' The announcement comes amidst the recent settlement of bitter co-operating disputes between Seattle's two newspapers and Bill Gates' recent comments on the shifting of the advertising market away from traditional media." Update: 05/18 21:51 GMT by Z : Michelle Nicolosi, Assistant Managing Editor for the PI, emailed this correction: "Someday, Seattle P-I readers may be able to carry around their news in a bendable, electronic paper device -- but not any time soon. Hearst Corp., which owns the Seattle P-I, has no plans to use the Seattle daily newspaper to test a newly announced E-paper gadget." The original site linked apparently got it wrong.

5 of 84 comments (clear)

  1. Newspapers by nelsonal · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The problem with most news papers isn't that they publish yesterday's news today, it's that there's aproximatly 0 usefulness accompanying the news. When the analysis exists, the papers continue to do well. Too many papers depended on their local monopoly on classified advertising for far too long and publish a shoddy product. That monopoly is fast loosing value to the internet and most firms were caught flat footed. E-paper isn't going to change that shift.

    --
    Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
    1. Re:Newspapers by nelsonal · · Score: 2, Insightful

      A better answer would be to not compete by offering something the internet rarely offer's well, not news but thoughtful analysis (it's going to take time to generate that so the slower delivery is far less meaningful).

      --
      Degaussing scares the bad magnetism out of the monitor and fills it with good karma.
  2. Imagine this... by FredDC · · Score: 2, Insightful

    An e-paper with a wireless connection (with widespread wireless connectivity) and a web browser.

    I could read slashdot on the way to work!

    --
    09 f9 11 02 9d 74 e3 5b d8 41 56 c5 63
  3. Re:Colleges by hal2814 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    That writing does more to help you remember a topic than just listening to the lecture and reading e-notes afterwards ever could. Besides, if you are "frantically" writing, then you are doing something wrong. You don't have to write down every word that comes from the professors mouth. Most Universities offer a note-taking class of some sort. At my University, it only took two hours of my time and made me a much better note taker. I had to take the course before I could be a professional note taker for disabled students, but it was open to anyone.

  4. Re:Colleges by phaggood · · Score: 3, Insightful

    > I can see this being EXTREMELY useful in the college scene.

    Heck, it'd be useful in *middle school* where my daughter hefts a rolling suitcase full of books to/from school every day. An inexpensive e-reader containing all her texts would be a dream, especially if supplemented with free sources like Project Guttenberg. The OLPC is a nifty thing (got to handle on "in the flesh" at the recent Penguicon), but a cheap reader would be an even greater catalyst for transforming education. I wonder if the Mexican e-textbook project is aware of these devices.