I’ve been keeping my eye on electronic paper technology for a few years and now it’s seeing the light of day in products like Amazon’s Kindle – Sony, Apple and others are all releasing products soon too
Details and a good video on Amazon’s site here
and a good Wikipedia article on the technology here – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_paper
There was much talk at the London Book Fair last week on Convergence and multi-format delivery of books from the outset of publication.
This is of course what we did with 100 Years of Ermintrude back in 2006 when it came out as a PDF first, then as MP3 and then MP4 – the last version out was the printed book
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the Kindle reminds me of something i saw in an old school Star Trek episode; and it’s so thin!