On Fri, Nov 24, 2006 at 02:44:01PM -0800, James E. Henderson wrote: > The "Next Big Thing" may be here: e-Ink books. Sony has begun selling an > e-Ink book reader for about $350 ... but newspaper publishers have > indicated they may give similar readers to their subscribers to update > online daily because that's cheaper than the cost of paper for a year. > E-Ink is slow -- it takes about half a second to update a page -- but it > requires no power to continue to display a page and it is said to be > very easy to read in a well-lighted area.
I'm all for anything that empowers authors. I'm not sure why this e-Ink thing is so novel. It looks like just a big PDA to me. cs -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
