tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-59255544099142279522012-03-09T05:37:48.709-08:00A blog on electronic reading (eBooks), viewing and writing as well as novel display technologies, devices and issues related to electronic or digital publishing.Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.comBlogger2711100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-65115277427576961982010-02-01T16:55:00.000-08:002010-02-01T17:06:00.240-08:00

Interesting post by Andrew, and he's spot on - but with the perspective of an eReader. Which really just raises the question: Is the iPad an eReader?Personally, I think it's not. It's certainly a better eReader than my laptop - great. Is it better than a typical eInk device? Well, that certainly depends on whether you need WiFi access, color, and quick response, versus daylight reading, easy

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Spurred on by Carl's contribution I wanted to share my thoughts on the iPad as an eReader. I'll start by stating some of the non-negotiable things in my own view of what makes a good reading device (of which the perfect incarnation doesn't exist yet...) My current eReading device which I use quite a lot is the Sony PRS 505, so I'll use that as one reference (although many of the comments will

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This post was contributed by Carl Dierchow Apple's iPad as an electronic reader Andrew asked if I might want to offer my thoughts on Apple's announcement this week of their new iPad.  It would appear that people are still struggling to figure out what this device is.  A huge iPod Touch?  The next Kindle?  A netbook replacement? For this blog, the most important question is:  What does this

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BERG (a London based Design Consultancy) has been working with Bonnier RD (RD arm of the Swedish media group of the same name that owns many magazine titles) to envision the future of magazines, digital magazines. You can see BERG's own explanation of the work at this page http://berglondon.com/blog/2009/12/17/magplus/  or Bonnier's page on Mag+ or view the larger video on Vimeo. Pages or

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Well, there's nothing quite like developing software for a vaporware hardware product, either makes the software developer's life VERY hard, or very easy as you can imagine the hardware you want then program for it. Well, that's what it seems the publisher of electronic TextBooks CourseSmart has been busy doing: Creating eTectBook software for the yet-to-happen or may-never-happen Apple tablet.

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This is an interesting piece of news that might need some follow-up. First, as a backdrop  Pace, Case Western, and Reed College Universities in the US were starting to use the Kindle as a replacement for textbooks. But the Kindle's menus do not have spoken equivalents for non-signed users, so after law suits from organizations representing the blind, the US Justice Department wades in and forces

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-74196929968979047042010-01-18T06:25:00.000-08:002010-01-18T06:25:12.677-08:00

Yep, another eReader from CES.... The usual 6-inch display and features, plus Text to Speach.....and that's it! From Engadget coverage at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/13/teclast-enters-the-e-book-fold-with-the-k3-talking-portable-libr/

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Bookeen comes in with their newer device. It has a sleek, few buttons, overall design although with a reasonable percentage of the frontal area NOT dedicated to the display. From their previous models it adds the touchscreen. Sony really pioneered touchscreens for eReaders and brought them mainstream, and now many others are following. I'd be surprised if the next version of the Kindle doesn't

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At CES, Jinke announced 6 and 9-inch panel e-readers. At this point, after so many introductions, I'd be short of things to say about them except maybe "They're white" or "One is a Kindle clone" if it were not for the fact that they sport not E-Ink displays, but SiPix displays. SiPix is the main direct-technology competitor to E-Ink, with a fairly similar electrophoretic display technology.

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There are already a bunch of lesser known, or until recently unknown, companies offering eReaders (plus Sony, as maybe the only major brand in this category to date)......so is it now time for all those well known computer and consumer electronic brands to get in too? The design novelty is that they have brought in the "slider" design feature from mobile phones to eReaders, as you can see in

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A different eReading related offering from CES - eReading Software for your PC. A change after seeing so many eReaders announced. This software is available for buying, organizing and reading your eBook content on PC and Mac. Interesting to link in additional content from the web, which seems nicely integrated into the "book". I don't think such software can be built only on having a nice UI

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-20753620232777753372010-01-17T10:38:00.000-08:002010-01-17T10:38:00.048-08:00

From Engadet at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/pixelqi-screens-to-be-used-by-major-manufacturer-in-2010/ I suspect that this "image" would be much more impressive in real-life, as that PixelQi display looks pretty good, but I get the sense the photo doesn't fully do it justice. Unlike the Mirasol and LiquaVista news (covered in separate posts) we knew PixelQi were busy at work and

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-30265739761307625872010-01-15T11:24:00.000-08:002010-01-15T11:24:08.853-08:00

OK, spot the seven differences between these two devices: The first one (top) is the Boeye OEM E900 eReader, and the second one (right) is the Kindle DX. What you can't see is that their internal specs are identical also, including the 3G hardware (but not the service behind the connection!). We're short on details of built-in firmware functionality, any associated software and content

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From Engadget at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/15/lg-displays-19-inch-e-ink-display-plays-loose-with-the-truth/ LG is starting to show just what it can do with E-Ink displays on top of it's metal foil backplane! As Engadget correctly comments, a flexible display won't necessarily (i.e. probably not) mean a flexible eReader. But it does bring ruggedness. Although it may never make it to

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Another "dark horse" display technology shows up at CES, to avoid letting Mirasol steal the show!   Innovation is alive and well in display technologies! From Engadget coverage at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/liquavista-shows-off-low-power-color-e-paper-display/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/12/liquavistas-monochrome-and-color-e-paper-displays-get-demonstra/ LiquaVista looked a

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Sources: Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/mirasol-shows-prototype-reader-like-device-playing-back-color-vi/ SlashGear coverage at http://www.slashgear.com/qualcomm-mirasol-color-video-ebook-readers-to-ship-in-2010-1863752/ I am really surprised to see this MEMs-based display technology in this size (5.7 inch diagonal), as I had written them off getting to these sizes

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-64891541522602083372010-01-10T13:56:00.000-08:002010-01-10T13:56:09.780-08:00

From Gizmodo at: http://www.gizmodo.es/?s=microsoft+courier (Spanish) http://gizmodo.com/5381011/microsoft-couriers-swipes-snips-and-scribbles-the-leaked-interface (give some image-based explanations of the UI) http://gizmodo.com/5380626/courier-user-interface-in-depth/gallery/ Microsoft are showing their Courier concept. I'm not sure Microsoft have been too successful with these concepts, with

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-89365674248068310962010-01-10T12:55:00.000-08:002010-01-10T12:55:35.807-08:00

From Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/samsungs-14-inch-transparent-oled-laptop-video/ How cool is that!? Anyone got any fun ideas for what it could be useful for? Heads-up display on your car's windscreen - if they get the transparency up a bit...? Watching for your boss coming while playing Solataire (or something less innocuous)?) :-) It brings PC display privacy

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-79714099800626317272010-01-10T12:50:00.000-08:002010-01-10T12:50:22.087-08:00

From Engadget coverage at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/msi-dualscreen-umpc-concept-had-us-at-dualscreen/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/msi-dualscreen-e-reader-hands-on/ I like this design, which is reminiscent of OLPC XO 3 concepts. It can be closed like a book to produce a smaller sized device plus the screens can act as two separate screens with content from different works or

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-30067297933327257812010-01-10T12:36:00.000-08:002010-01-10T12:36:30.934-08:00

From Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/spring-designs-alex-e-reader-gets-february-22-release-date-39/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/05/spring-design-alex-hands-on/ Another eReader provider partners with Barnes & Noble on the content front, this time it's Spring Design with their "Alex" eReader which apparently "inspired" the B&N Nook design - the parallels are obvious.

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-21195348742362900432010-01-10T12:26:00.000-08:002010-01-10T12:26:59.699-08:00

From Engadget coverage at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/rca-lexi-e-reader-sports-barnes-and-noble-software-audiovox-har/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/09/lexi-e-book-reader-probably-wont-ever-be-called-sexy-hands-on/ AudioVox has launched the RCA branded Lexi reader at CES. It seems a fairly standard spec-ed E-Ink device:6-inch (800 x 600) 16-level grayscale display 2GB storage battery

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-4267598313806619322010-01-10T12:15:00.000-08:002010-01-10T12:15:01.946-08:00

From Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/hands-on-with-fujitsu-flepia-color-e-book-reader/ Fujitsu's FLEPia has to date been the only color eReader (that I know of, and not counting Laptops and Tablets) on the market. At CES we are seeing two or three competitors to it's display being shown, but non are in the market yet. Fujitsu have only been selling the FLEPia in Japan

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-27732687244112935122010-01-10T12:08:00.000-08:002010-01-10T12:08:25.215-08:00

From Engadget coverage at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/notion-ink-adam-prototype-hands-on-it-looks-nothing-like-the-re/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/notion-ink-adam-stripped-bare-and-our-in-depth-video-hands-on/ DesignDesign features a rounded left-edge to the device, reminiscent of the spine of a hard-bound book. But unlike a book it kind of wraps around, giving you a grip so

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-74786035063142949382010-01-10T10:59:00.000-08:002010-01-10T10:59:27.643-08:00

From Engadget coverage at: http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/hanvon-debuts-new-line-of-wisereader-e-book-readers/ http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/08/hanvon-wisereader-e-book-lineup-hands-on/ Hanvon have waded into the eReader space with a range of five devices sporting some significant design differences around a similar display size. They have focused on writing, annotation and note taking

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From Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/the-hp-slate/ Not an eReader in the conventional sense, but a relevant product that can be used for consuming many types of media. If your in the PC business, including Tablet PCs and mobile smartphones, can you avoid the emerging Tablet-reader....thru to ...eReader space? Looks like the larger PC OEMs, HP-included, will not, but

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A quick post on this Tablet from Quanta. As I expect to see more and more convergence between larger tablet-form-factor PMPs (Personal Media Players), Tablet computers and eReaders I will be giving some more coverage to interesting Tablet devices coming out. This device seems to show very good viewability and battery life even with an LCD display and could compete for viewing/reading of some

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Sources: Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/06/copia-promises-to-blend-e-books-and-social-networking-into-set-o/ Engadget at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/copia-intros-ereader-devices-and-platform-video/ Here we have yet more Spanish-language-inspired naming, this time with a DRM-inspired name of: "Copy"! I know someone will say it's news inspired (as in News-copy,

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-51671440095969351482010-01-10T09:41:00.000-08:002010-01-10T09:41:37.285-08:00

Well, there is more information coming in about Plastic Logic's Que (what!?) device. Just taking the ones from Engadget that I've been going through as a starting point, here are the sources and my impressions: Sources: Plastic Logic QUE proReader first hands-on (with video!) Plastic Logic QUE proReader in-depth video hands-on Plastic Logic debuts QUE proReader, shows off truVue publications

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Sources: Engadget hands-on at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/07/skiff-e-reader-hands-on-kindle-watch-out/ The Coolist http://www.thecoolist.com/skiff-reader-the-ultimate-e-reader/comment-page-1/#comment-5042 The Editors Web Log at http://www.editorsweblog.org/multimedia/2010/01/new_e-reader_skiff_unveiled.php Hearst has been interested and active in eReaders longer than most "publishers" with

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Interead has expanded their line-up of COOL-ER eReaders at CES. From Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/interead-expands-cool-er-e-reader-line-up-announces-additional/ and at http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/04/interead-expands-cool-er-e-reader-line-up-announces-additional/ The News They have introduced connected models, with Wi-Fi and 3G (via AT&T in North America) and

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A pending piece of pre-CES news, but similar to a bunch of things coming out of CES: a dual-screen, combined LCD and eInk reading device.... From Engadget coverage at http://www.engadget.com/2009/12/16/entourage-edge-dual-screen-android-e-reader-given-lusty-hands-on/ (included embedded video from CNET) Another LCD / eInk combination device. This is a trend recently, with a few other devices,

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Well, eReaders really seem to be the thing at this years CES show. It seems everyone who stayed very quiet (show-wise) during the last year of crisis kept their heads down working hard on eReader devices and display technology. I'm wading through all the eReader related announcements, using Engadget as a starting point, and the list is growing pretty big and I've got a bunch of posts backed-up

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Well, it's finally made it, a new exciting ereader device from Plastic Logic, and just as (or more?) importantly, a new technology for transistor manufacture has made it to market via this eReader: Organic Transistors. With information from Technology Review (http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/24323/?a=f) and Plastic Logic's own site (http://www.plasticlogic.com/) At CES Plastic Logic

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It's CES (Consumer Electronics Show) time of the year again, and no doubt it will bring a raft of eReader product news. Here's one from iRiver...as reported by Engadget. It seems an iRiver eReader device is to emerge at last! They have been on-off with it for quite a while, occaisionally shoing concepts but not talking much about products....now it seems they have soming for us in 2010. The

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Well, it's been a while since I last posted as other projects at work and outside took much of my time over the past 6 months. But I now plan to keep up the posting of news and thoughts about eBooks or eReaders as I prefer to call them.A lot has been happening during the last year, and a segment that almost no-one knew about or talked about now seems to be in the mass media and the minds of many

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-69576692984302658222009-08-12T02:46:00.000-07:002009-08-12T03:07:42.307-07:00

Well it seems like it's the end of the road for Polymer Vision, and their vision will remain just that, a vision.Recently Engadget covered the news of Polymer Vision's filing for bankruptcy.That is a testament to the effort and resources it takes to bring to market a new display technology, manufacturing processes, device and content and distribution ecosystem. Arguably they should have stayed

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Tech-On, one of my favourite Asian Tech Blog brings us the news that Bridgestone Makes Full-scale Entry Into E-paper Businessand is to release a new updated version of it's QRLP (Quick Response Liquid Powder) ePaper displays to the world, with at least one of them being an A4 sized display.The screen refresh time of 0.8 seconds is down from their previous times, but that's still a bit on the

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Sorry for the lapse in posting, but I'll try and get back into the swing of things over Summer!I want to post other material than just re-posts of eReader news on other blogs, but as those are also interesting for this audience I'll start with them, and then work on other subjects.Over at Engadget they tell us about Elonex launches £189 6-inch eBook reader through Borders UKAs Engadget also note,

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Fujitsu have announced that they plan to start selling the FLEPia color eBook reader to consumers in Japan, after the trials they been doing for some time.Previous coverage of mine on the FLEPia can be found here:-Fujitsu FLEPia color eBookUpdate on Fujitsu FLEPiaRead while you wait - on epaperDescription and Specs (taken from the Fujitsu press release) include:-Color!  260,000 colors to be

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Engadget have picked-up at Cebit about a new release of the BeBook eBook Reader.At that page you can also see a video of it in action, althoigh it won't show you anything very special.General comments about this eReader:-Looks to have a nice leather (looking) case!Screen is a reasonably large % of the size of the device, one of my personal metrics for a readerI've just realized it's almost

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I review this long, broad ranging article on the future of the publishing industry from CNN Money.One of the many issues the article raises is that of format. If you've ever tried, it's not so easy to read a newspaper (as we know it) on a 5" or 6" diagonal screen. Zooming and panning across the broadsheet and up and down articles in a current newspaper layout is a pain. It does improve somewhat

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At Cebit ASUS showed this interesting concept device, that is a kind of merge of an eBook and PC, with dual touchscreens.For now, all I have are the photos, but enjoy them here:

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South Korean producer Neolux has recently released the NUUT2 eBook reader.They have added an extra strip LCD display, just as Amazon remove it in the Kindle 2.It has a fairly standard 6-inch, 600 x 800 E-Ink display, but with only eight shades of gray making it come up short against the newest competition which are coming out with 16.With 1GB of internal storage it is short of the Kindle2, but

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Those of us who have been tracking the eReader and ePaper area for years will remember Hearst's early activity in this area and investment in E-Ink among others. Then for a long time they went quiet and we'd either forgot about them or assumed they'd lost interest. Well, they're back covered by CNN Money / Fortune in their article: Hearst to launch a wireless e-readerI do wonder what the

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CES is behind us, but CeBit is upon us and has produce a new flood of gadgets, including eBooks.I'll start with Onyx International's new "Boox" e-reader - reported via Engadget and Mobileread forums. Onyx seems to be yet another "one book wonder" from China although "Registered in America", set-up with just one product - an eBook reader. "Specs? Features?" I hear you say!"The device boasts a 6-

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I've finally gotten some time to comment on the recent moves by Amazon to provide eBook reading and access to their eBook content on the iPhone/iTouch platform.Thanks to readers for pointers to these articles on the subjectYahoo News ArticlePCPro ArticleAmazon now provide a free iPhone application  for eBook purchase/download/reading. It's available from Apple's iPhone App Store. I see this as a

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A Brief Round-up of the reactions (of others and my own) to the Kindle 2 introduction...Text-To-SpeachThe Text-To-Speach feature was unexpected (by me), and I can only think that is what the speakers are for. So, maybe it can now read your book to you when you are driving or something similar?Will text-to-speach books give audio books a run for their money? I doubt it, but I´m not much of an

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I4U News blog (via Engadget) brings us a post of a prototype display from Arizona State University (ASU, where they have the Flexible Display Center).It includes  a video of a prototype E-Ink display on a flexible substrate with stylus input.The title states "touchscreen" and the text "The flexible touchscreen display supports user input either by stylus pen or by touch. "but it appears in the

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A Yahoo article picks up on this technology announcement from Adobe of a new PDF and .EPUB software SDK release and agreements in the mobile and eBook reader space:"In support of the new Adobe Reader Mobile SDK, a number of companies announced plans to ship devices or applications in 2009 that integrate the new Adobe technology, including Bookeen, iRex Technologies, Lexcycle, Plastic Logic,

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Laptopmag recently has reviewed this new device from REDFLY that is the inheritor of the Folio legacy!Intomobile.com have a page with demo video that gives a good overview.I've covered the rapid rise and fall of the Palm FOLIO here in previous posts, but it seems people are willing to have another attempt at breaking the limitations of mobile phone input (keyboard) and output (display).....brave

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Engadget picked-up on some news about trials by Fujitsu of their color epaper-like displays in restraurants and barsThis is their FLEPia technology which I've covered here in the past with previous posts:Fujitsu FLEPia color e-bookUpdate on the FLEPiaAnd you can read the original article on Tech-On blogAs you can read, it actually a very small and short trial, but interesting all the same. They

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I first covered this Foxit eSlick eBook reading device in a post back in December.But it seems to be back in the news with a minor (software?) update. You can see it on the Foxit web-site here: http://www.foxitsoftware.com/ebook/They don't mess about with positioning and exort you to "Save money to buy more eBooks" !There is a YouTube video showing it in use, but it's not really worth watching.It

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Since Plastic Logic is getting quite a few mentions recently in the eBook space, despite the Kindle2 release and new Cebit eBooks I wanted to post this quick reference to news on what they are doing to get content partners on board with them.Summary from EngadgetArticle from The Earth TimesYahoo Finance ArticleQuoting "The Earth Times", which in turn quotes Plastic Logic's own Press Release:"

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News is coming in (Engadget and Engadget China) of new trials of good-looking e-paper, both monochrome and color. The image quality (see the Engadget China post for best images, with comments in Chinese) looks great, at least on the monochrome version, although the color is nothing to write home about.A3, good quality....if they can make them on plastic then the digital tabloid is not that far

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Here in this blog recently I've been covering more and more news about reading eBooks on your cell phone, mostly iPhone. This is due mostly to great improvements in cell phones displays (size and quality) plus east to use navigation means for them, and faster data connections to download content and better battery life for the above.Aparently Amazon has announced that it will soon be making the

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Rumors about the second version of Amazon's successfull Kindle eBook reader device have been flying (echoing) around the blogo-sphere for some time now.First came this leak of photos and pricing reported by Engadget, via MobileRead (see mobileread post for more photos also).In these photos the general look of the first kindle is kept, and it changes in a number of other ways, such as:it is much

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The user of E-paper signs has been seen in test in Tokyo recently. Aparently they are connected by a wireless network and information can be displayed on them in case of an emergency.Engadget reports "There are currently two signs: one in the lobby of the post office measures over three meters across and sports 240 x 768 resolution (the paper has 4mm pixels), and holds down power consumption at

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News from CES 2009 (Consumer Electronics Show) suggests that the much anticipated PlasticLogic eBook reader will not be shipping early this year as previously announced, but is postponed until "early 2010".Its anticipated mainly because it will have a "plastic electronics" display with no glass, providing robustness and lightness but not (yet) flexibility.PlasticLogic and PolymerVision, with its

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Here is a follow-up to yesterday's post about Walt Mossberg's coverage of new eBook readers for the iPhone, a short video interview with him about them and how they compare with the Amazon Kindle.

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In previous posts I've commented on a few of the recent eBook reading software applications for the iPhone and iPod Touch (Stanza, eReader, etc).At the Wall Street Journal on-line, personal technology columnist Walt Mossberg discusses a couple of recent additions to those offerings.The first is "Shortcovers" from Indigo, a Canadian book selling company. It will be available soon (maybe by the

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Some time ago, I commented (Opalux P-ink) on work by the firm Opalux in collaboration with the University of Toronto in Canada (Opalux was a spin-off of University of Toronto work).Now a new Technology Review Article follows continued work by the University to speed up the color transitions of this technology, a candidate for very highly reflective (bright, depending on the ambient light) e-paper

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HP's research labs (HP Labs) have been quietly working away for some time on key technical aspects of flexible electronics, including their application to flexible displays.Now they have announced publicly progress made in their "SAIL" process (Self-Aligned Imprint Lithography), which is a roll-to-roll manufacturing process for electronics, which if married with a flexible display technology

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Will your next laptop look like that, or your next (first?) eBook reader?This came out a while back at CES, but I still thought it was interesting.See the original post from Engadget.Sony are pushing forward with OLED in the market, as evidenced by their OLED TV. Here they show design concepts for products using OLED displays on flexible backplanes (and front-planes for that matter) and amoung

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-61418444186006947772009-01-12T08:00:00.000-08:002009-01-12T08:00:01.045-08:00

I have commented briefly on Quallcomm's "Mirasol" MEMS display technology in the past on this blog, specifically here: Qualcomm's MEMS "e-paper" display debutsNow, thanks to the CES trade-show this week we can see another implementation of it, on a GPS device, reported by Engadget.With one of its advantages being great visibility in bright lighting conditions, using it in a GPS makes a lot of

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While looking at the geographical distribution of the readers of this blog in Google Analytics, I realized that I'd made a lot of progress and got readers from many countries in the world.That made me want to find readers from the other parts of the world, where no one has visited this blog yet.And I thought of you, my existing readers, and that maybe you could help!If you know someone in one of

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From Engadget at the CES show, a new video on the use of folding OLED displays in mobile phones.I've blogged on this 'trend' a couple of times in the past:Folding OLED displayMore folding displays for mobile phonesFrom the images it seems like it is actually two displays side-by-side, but with these poor quality videos shot on trade-show booths it is always difficult to tell.Either way, I look

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Foxit, a brand unknown to me before this, enters the eBook Reader market with a low-cost device called the eSlick.It seems to be a no-nonsense, no-frills device along the lines of many I have covered here previously over the past year or more such as :Bookeen Cybook (covered recently)Astak Mentor and BeBookNetronixNeoLuxHanlinYou can see Engadget's review of it which builds on the PC World

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Bookeen (bookeen web-site) seem to be revving up for the festive (and hopefully for them "buying") season with their CyBook generation 3 eBook reader.I've covered the CyBook previously in this blog, in order from oldest to newest:-Are you keen on the Booken CyBook?Bookeen CyBook 3 eBook reader reviewCybook eReader updateThe newsletter they sent to me explains that they will be dropping prices for

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Yahoo!Tech reports (via PCWorld) that Mary-Lou Jepsen continues her line of work from the OLPC project in her new company (PixelChi) to extend the battery life of laptop computers by attacking the area of the laptop's display, and how it integrates with and is managed by the laptop.The OLPC display and laptop designed by Jepsen included some innovative design features that significantly extended

Andrew Mackenziehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07645765944113681730noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5925554409914227952.post-15390110787205214432008-12-17T16:00:00.000-08:002008-12-17T16:00:00.854-08:00

Wired reports on efforts by publishers to ready their content for publishing in e-Book format, on multiple devices and platforms, but with the iPhone featuring highly among them.There are a growing number of eBook reading applications available for the iPhone (despite Steve Jobs claiming that "people don't read anymore") and I have covered a number of them in this blog.Also, it seems that many

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Remember that toy doll (for boys!) that existed a long time ago, called "Little Big Man", well now we seem to be entering into the period of the "Little Big Phone" enabled by folding displays. At last we will be able to have a decent screen real estate for reading/viewing the types of media that need it, but that can be folded up into a small package for the pocket.I have commented in a number of

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See the "dissertation" on TeleRead blog here on how we are again demonizing a new book technology, just like 500 years ago.History replays itself!Originally books were handwritten (copied) by specialized scribes, often with extreme artistry.Then one day a new technology was "invented" - the movable type printer, which promised cheap, mass production of books that (shock! horror!) would ALL LOOK

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The adoption of the iPhone/iPod Touch as general phone, media and internet devices is known and more than covered.It appears that they are also being adopted as devices for reading eBooks, although when based on free download numbers you never know. They do seem to indicate a lot of interest.This can only be encouraged when mass media such as J.D. Biersdorfer over at the New Yorks Times covers

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CafeScribe state on their web-site that:CaféScribe is all about helping students save money and get better grades. Our digital textbooks and free MyScribe reader take you where traditional printed media can't. Think of us as textbooks 2.0.Thus they seems a good resource for students looking for eTexts and a good follow-on to my previous post on the economics of buying your text books in

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Over here at TeleRead forums they explore the direct download of eBook content to the iPhone or iPod touch for the Stanza eBook reading software.I've commented on the Stanza eBook reading software for iPhone/iPod Touch previously in these posts:-Nifty new ebook reading apps for iPhone/iPod TouchHalf a million downloads of Stanza eReading software for eBooks on Apple iPhoneeReader eBook reading

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TeleRead blog has a veritable splurge of news and rumor or speculation on the Nintendo DS (Lite) as a possible eBook reading platform. Here are the main links if you want to read more:-‘Nintendo lining up DSphone’—with e-book apps as options?Will the next Nintendo DS be a better e-reader?E-books for Nintendo Wii and DS—and Sony PS3E-books officially on the Nintendo DS?The DS does have great

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Here are some more details and discussion on the Plastic Logic electronic reading device announced a while back from the future of things blog.Previous posts of mine regarding Plastic Logic's work include (in chronological order, from oldest to newest):-Flexible Display Design Concepts - contestPlastic Logic announces...somethingMore Plastic Logic news from DemoFall showThis latest TFOT post

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Jason Perlow over at ZDNet Blogs takes a closer look at some of the economics of owning a Kindle eBook reader and buying electronic, not paper books.He decides to take a look at two markets, or use cases: higher education and consumers.I say "use case", because some students at higher education will be consumers of other types of content also, and consumers may do study on their eBook reading

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May be "Black Friday" doesn't need to be so black after all, thanks to JetBook with this great eBook offer.Seems to me like they should call it the "Jet-Black-Book" :-)JetBook ups the ante and addresses those thrifty "financial crisis" buyers with an agressive $198 offer (with free shipping!) to be found at NewEgg, a hundred dollars cheaper than their usual (white) version.That offer won't last

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The Amazon Kindle Review blog does a direct comparison here of the version 1 of the Kindle eBook reader with the 3rd gen Sony reader, the PRS-700.Noting their obvious partiality to the Kindle, they chose to list their (perceived) advantages of each and let you decide.When they say "back-light" as an accessory for the Kindle, they mean front-light.When they say "front-light" for the Sony, they

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FUNAI have announced a new technology for ePaper that is causing a bit of a stir and lots of interest. There is excellent coverage of it at the TechOn Japanese web site which I summarize and comment on here (see references below)Its an electrochromic technology, that is monochrome for now:Gray scale representation is also possible with pulse width modulation. Although the device supports only

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iRex Technologies announce here on their official blog (i-to-i) with pomp that the iRex Digital Reader (specifically the DR1000 model) will now be a reading platform with 800 electronic newspapers available to be read on it.These 800 newspapers have appeared overnight "in one fell swoop" through the porting of the Newspaper Direct PressReader Software (which has until now only been available for

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Hot on the heels of my earlier post on a demonstration from Samsung of a "folding" OLED display here is a Technology Review article on Quantum Dots displays and a new manufacturing technique for them being worked on by a start-up called "QD Vision".Compared to the state of development and manufacture of OLEDs, the story is two-sided.We already have small OLED displays in manufacture and use (

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Well, Samsung have come nicely to my aid with a video from the FPD 2008 trade-show of a working, folding OLED display (in this case embedded in a mobile phone) that makes an excellent follow-on to the previous post about dual-display eBook research.The video is pretty tedious (1m49s long), but there are a couple of high-points when the working, bright OLED display in the cell-phone is folded flat

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On the UK's PocketLint gadget web they have recently posted a video on research from Maryland and Berkeley Universities into more advanced document navigation.As part of that research they developed further the concept of a dual-display eReader and how it can be used to ease certain types of reading, and some of the more complex navigational tasks.This would be most useful beyond your standard "

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eReader is another eBook reading application for the iPhone and iPod Touch devices.You can see a 10minute demo video of their v1.0 release (from July 2008) here, or embedded below:Getting the applicationThe application is downloaded to the iPhone from the Apple AppStore as for other applications.Getting ContenteBooks can be purchased from major publishers (at the moment eReader themselves and

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Apparently, the Stanze eReading software from Lexcycle for the iPhone has been very successful, with already over 500,000 downloads. The iPhone reader application is available on the Apple iPhone AppStore and the desktop/laptop eBook software for PC or Mac is available from this section of the Lexcycle web.The fact it is free is obviously a factor, but it does indicate the level of interest or

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TeleRead forums post an explanation here by Ficbot of how she was pleased, 10 times over of having an eBook reader.I have long shared her belief that the eBook discussion shouldn't be a print OR eBook discussion.The two have different strengths and can complement each other, and that sometimes you may even want both formats of the SAME book and even buy them together.I'm not sure when I've been "

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Over at the iRex company blog you can read in this post that explains how just after a week of them releasing their full-source-code to the open source community, they have seen the first "community developed" application (FBReader) released for the DR1000 eBook reader.iRex are pushing a radically different model for their software platform with their recent open sourcing of their code, and it

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Over at TeleRead web you can see this post discussing audible books from Audible.com (recently bought by Amazon) on the Amazon Kindle.I tried an audio book for the first time this summer, via my iPod in my car on my daily commute to work and back - with mixed results - and I'm still not sold on the idea but try to keep an open mind.This person's experience with the Kindle using the Audible.com

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I covered the initial introduction of the ETACO JetBook eBook reader, with it's monochrome LCD display, in my original post.At the end of October they announced an update on it in their press release, which explains the update consists of:-Now Includes Fodor's Travel GuideSupport for International Digital Publishing Forum's (IDPF) epub formatMobiPocket eBook format supportand is due to hit the

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MobileTechReview have posted a very good review and discussion of the pros and cons on Sony's new eReader the PRS-700 here.Echoing my own sentiments they consider the improvements in interaction from Sony significant. The combination of continued small improvements in button layout and use, this time supercharged also by the addition of the touchscreen, and the new interaction from the

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For the second time, Welcome!The work to port here past posts has finally finished and so posts from now on will be up-to-date or "in the present".In the process of porting those previous posts, some short cuts had to be taken. So they are not all as complete or at the quality level desired, and hope to be attained moving forward.Specifically:Some internal links between posts, and linked to other

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Just a quick pointer to this article on Wired news blog that describes the efforts by the US Army to develop light, flexible, low-power displays for use by their soldiers in the field. Not a lot of "news" in it, but maybe interesting you were unfamiliar with the US Army work and the Flexible Display Center at Arizona State University. Regarding the image above (from top of article), I think the

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This article on AppleInsider covers a new eBook reading application for iPhone called "Classics" to add to existing ones like "Stanza" and"eReader" which are available from the iPhone's App Store. As it's name suggests it's targetted at Classic content, digitized and made available by Project Gutenberg, after some clean-up and cover design by these guys. "Classic", rightly or wrongly in this

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The Chinese manufacturer Hanvon has introduced what it claims is the first 5" E Ink eBook reader. See article here from the TechOn news blog. Specs include 11mm thickFormats supported: TXT, HTML, PNG, JPG, PDF, XEB, CEB, MP3, MTXT167 PPI, SVGA (800 x 600 pixels) E-Paper display1GB SD card and a mini USB port. So, not much new really. Hanvon has experience in handwriting input and tablets and are

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Original Post from November 3rd 2008.v\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } o\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } w\:* { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } .shape { BEHAVIOR: url(#default#VML) } @font-face { font-family: Cambria Math; } @font-face { font-family: ＭＳ Ｐゴシック; } @font-face { font-family: Century Gothic; } @font-face { font-family: @ＭＳ Ｐゴシック; } @page Section1 {size: 8.5in 11.0in;

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Original Post from November 3rd 2008.Kent Displays in Ohio, US, has recently made announcements based on progress in their Cholesteric LCD display research. One such article from wkyc.com can be found here. Basically they announce two things: Flexible display manufacturing (or at least advanced prototyping) of their ChLCD display technology.Creation of a color-changing coating (~= "display") for

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Original Post from October 29th 2008.Engadget (here) and other sites are reporting news from E Ink (shown here in an employee video on YouTube. I've added a few details to what you'll see in Engadget and others. They are now offering their E Ink displays (or in fact, their partners who produce full display modules, such as Prime View International (PVI) are) with an updated E Ink display

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Original Post from October 23rd 2008.As reported here by TechnologyReview QuallComm has finally shipped their MEMS-based display technology. This technology has the potential to be fast, bright and colorful but we think it's got limitations in size and it will be difficult to put onto a plastic electronics (read flexible) backplane. In the photo it looks nice and bright, but just look at how

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