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Color E-Book Displays Coming From E Ink Next Year
waderoush writes "E Ink, which makes the monochrome electrophoretic screens used in the Amazon Kindle, the Barnes & Noble Nook, the Sony Reader line, and other e-readers, is gearing up to supply manufacturers with the first color versions of its displays by early next year, according to an Xconomy interview with T.H. Peng, a vice president with Taiwan's Prime View International, which bought E Ink last year. Peng argues that E Ink has nothing to fear from the e-book apps on the Apple iPad and other devices with color LCDs, which, in his view, produce more eye strain and aren't as suitable for digital reading. Nonetheless, the company says its first color screens in 2011 will have newspaper-quality color, followed within a couple of years by improved versions that can handle magazine-style content."
We'll be able to physically feel and turn the pages of these color books. Makes notes in the margin and who knows, with advances on the DRM front be able to actually pass these books onto our children!
An Apple version of E ink? You mean iEink? That sounds wrong, like pain or something
Yes, fanboy, your Mac is sooooo fabulous it magically does away with eye strain from the LCD. Maybe you don't get eye strain because of all practice crossing your eyes while your nose is in Steve Jobs' butt.
1) Buy ebook
2) Cover it with nutmeg
3) ???
4) Sell it to calibre-not-output
5) PROFIT!!!
"linux is just DOS with a UNIX like syntax" -- Galactic Dominator (944134)
Hmm.. Could be eye strain caused by looking down your nose at the PC??
Old Mcdonald had an Ebook reader, E-I-E-I-Ink
And on that Ebook reader were overpriced books, E-I-E-I-who the hell cares.
I'm a concientious
The new Kindle! Now with that Old Book Smell (tm)!
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