2009年12月28日 星期一

E-readers, e-paper, e-books, growing popularity/intolerance

In Tehran, thick crowds marched down a central avenue in midmorning, defying official warnings of a harsh crackdown on protests as they chanted “death to Khamenei,” referring to Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, who has expressed growing intolerance for political dissent in the country.


LG Display Inks E-Paper Deal
The South Korean LCD maker signed an agreement with Taiwan's Prime View International, maker of e-books for Sony and Amazon.com, to tap the fast-growing electronic reader market.


E-readers

Read-e for the masses

Dec 24th 2009
From Economist.com

The growing popularity of electronic books


CONSUMERS are beginning to warm to the idea of viewing their novels and news on plastic tablets, thumbing buttons instead of flipping pages. E-reader sales have been gathering momentum since Amazon launched the Kindle in 2007. In 2009 falling prices, combined with a flurry of deals, announcements and technical upgrades, primed the market for a vast expansion. There are about 5m e-readers in circulation worldwide and double that amount will be sold in 2010, according to iSuppli, a market-research firm. Apple, with its record of improving upon existing technologies and triggering mass adoption, is expected to shake up the business by launching a tablet-style computer—which would make an ideal e-reader—in 2010.


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