Electrophoretic Displays' Growth
DigiTimes
Despite a lackluster small- to medium-size TFT LCD panel market, demand for electrophoretic displays (EPDs) remains strong, and the EPD market is expected to grow 10 times over the next three years, according to Prime View International (PVI).DigiTimes
Thursday, July 31, 2008
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
The Case Against Ebooks
'It made me feel alienated from the books that I know well'
The Guardian
My iLiad may have gobbled up the oeuvres of Jane Austen, Dickens and DH Lawrence, but somewhere inside that slim slab of grey plastic they had apparently dematerialised, waiting to be summoned from the ether, page by page. All those thick books, heavy with experience, were now weightless, like ghostly replicas of the tattered, dog-eared, much-pored-over counterparts on my shelves.
The Guardian
My iLiad may have gobbled up the oeuvres of Jane Austen, Dickens and DH Lawrence, but somewhere inside that slim slab of grey plastic they had apparently dematerialised, waiting to be summoned from the ether, page by page. All those thick books, heavy with experience, were now weightless, like ghostly replicas of the tattered, dog-eared, much-pored-over counterparts on my shelves.
Kindle First Impressions
So is the Kindle worth $400 to you, or anyone on your gift list?
Consumer Reports
An obvious pre-qualifier is a willingness to try new technology that's almost bound to drop in cost, improve in performance, or both in subsequent iterations. Then there's mobility; a book reader probably makes sense only if you often read on the move. Beyond that, here's my initial take on prime candidates for the Kindle
Consumer Reports
An obvious pre-qualifier is a willingness to try new technology that's almost bound to drop in cost, improve in performance, or both in subsequent iterations. Then there's mobility; a book reader probably makes sense only if you often read on the move. Beyond that, here's my initial take on prime candidates for the Kindle
Digital magazines a click away
Zinio and similar ventures could be a lifeline as young readers migrate to Internet and electronic devices for news.
USA Today
Zinio is at the vanguard of digital publishing. It has created electronic versions of over 750 magazines, including BusinessWeek, Elle, Redbook, Playboy and Car and Driver. Consumers access them from their PC, iPhone or iPod Touch anytime — before magazines hit newsstands. Zinio gets a cut of sales as online distributor, Maggiotto says. Consumers pay publishers for online editions — be it for a subscription, single issue or back issue. The digital editions let readers click on links embedded in articles and ads to peruse video, audio and related stories. That, no doubt, is pleasing the growing ranks of digital magazine subscribers.
USA Today
Zinio is at the vanguard of digital publishing. It has created electronic versions of over 750 magazines, including BusinessWeek, Elle, Redbook, Playboy and Car and Driver. Consumers access them from their PC, iPhone or iPod Touch anytime — before magazines hit newsstands. Zinio gets a cut of sales as online distributor, Maggiotto says. Consumers pay publishers for online editions — be it for a subscription, single issue or back issue. The digital editions let readers click on links embedded in articles and ads to peruse video, audio and related stories. That, no doubt, is pleasing the growing ranks of digital magazine subscribers.
E-Paper To The Rescue
Some small hope for the newspaper and magazine industry
paidContent
E-papers, electronic versions of the print property, will be big, netting mags $25 billion in revenue, according to David Renard, senior analyst at researcher MediaIdeas. However, that won’t happen until about 2020, he says.
paidContent
E-papers, electronic versions of the print property, will be big, netting mags $25 billion in revenue, according to David Renard, senior analyst at researcher MediaIdeas. However, that won’t happen until about 2020, he says.
E-Books, Imperfect but Fascinating
The Kindle, the Reader, and e-ink: The buzz continues.
Consumer Reports
Several lectures I've attended in the past week or so argue that flaws are inevitable when products break significant new ground—as these devices clearly do, being more legible and more portable than past e-books. Last week, while attending Stanford University's Stanford Professional Publishing Course, I heard professor Paul Saffo urge magazine editors to embrace the Kindle and its ilk, in spite of their flaws. Another instructor, renowned product designer Bill Moggridge, told me the Kindle has streamlined his research process by allowing him to electronically highlight passages in books and download those excerpts to his computer, saving him hours of transcription time.
Consumer Reports
Several lectures I've attended in the past week or so argue that flaws are inevitable when products break significant new ground—as these devices clearly do, being more legible and more portable than past e-books. Last week, while attending Stanford University's Stanford Professional Publishing Course, I heard professor Paul Saffo urge magazine editors to embrace the Kindle and its ilk, in spite of their flaws. Another instructor, renowned product designer Bill Moggridge, told me the Kindle has streamlined his research process by allowing him to electronically highlight passages in books and download those excerpts to his computer, saving him hours of transcription time.
Sunday, July 27, 2008
James Fallows on the Kindle Experience
Part I, The Atlantic
Unexpected and potentially important practical aspect: I'm always getting very long book or article manuscripts to read, usually in .DOC or .PDF files. I don't want to use the paper to print them out, so generally I have to be at a computer to deal with. But I can email them as attachments to a Kindle.com address; then for 10 cents a document, they're resent to my own Kindle in a form I can read and annotate when not at a computer. Have already used this system to queue up a couple of book-length manuscripts I'm supposed to read while on the road in the next week or so.
Part II, The Atlantic
Spent six or seven hours of the flight reading on the Kindle. Perfectly pleasant and legible. Only one inconvenience relative to " real" books -- harder to flip ahead or back several pages at a time. (You scroll page by page, or else go to the table of contents.)
Unexpected and potentially important practical aspect: I'm always getting very long book or article manuscripts to read, usually in .DOC or .PDF files. I don't want to use the paper to print them out, so generally I have to be at a computer to deal with. But I can email them as attachments to a Kindle.com address; then for 10 cents a document, they're resent to my own Kindle in a form I can read and annotate when not at a computer. Have already used this system to queue up a couple of book-length manuscripts I'm supposed to read while on the road in the next week or so.
Part II, The Atlantic
Spent six or seven hours of the flight reading on the Kindle. Perfectly pleasant and legible. Only one inconvenience relative to " real" books -- harder to flip ahead or back several pages at a time. (You scroll page by page, or else go to the table of contents.)
Saturday, July 26, 2008
Esquire's Electronic Ink Cover
Did anyone stop to consider the environmental implications?
Fast Company
The total outlay in greenhouse gas emissions for this little experiment based on loose estimates comes to 150 tons of CO2 equivalent, similar to the output of 15 Hummers or 20 average Americans for an entire year, and a 16% increase over the carbon footprint of a typical print publication.
Is this anything more than a stunt?
The Guardian
With the circulation of magazines and newspapers declining and the seeming unstoppable rise of digital media, some industry observers believe print is doomed. Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, has famously said that the most recent purchase of printing presses might well be the paper's last.
I love stupid gimmicks.
Gizmodo
So, Esquire, I'm glad you're reaching for boldness, but to make history, you're going to have to have a clearer understanding of the future of publishing and what your under-30 readers really want from you digitally.
Fast Company
The total outlay in greenhouse gas emissions for this little experiment based on loose estimates comes to 150 tons of CO2 equivalent, similar to the output of 15 Hummers or 20 average Americans for an entire year, and a 16% increase over the carbon footprint of a typical print publication.
Is this anything more than a stunt?
The Guardian
With the circulation of magazines and newspapers declining and the seeming unstoppable rise of digital media, some industry observers believe print is doomed. Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian, has famously said that the most recent purchase of printing presses might well be the paper's last.
I love stupid gimmicks.
Gizmodo
So, Esquire, I'm glad you're reaching for boldness, but to make history, you're going to have to have a clearer understanding of the future of publishing and what your under-30 readers really want from you digitally.
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