The electronic book a lot closer to being a budget product...

[Cergorach]

Just take a look at this BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3173835.stm

 

[Dana_Jorgensen]

That's old school. I'm waiting for flexible organic LEDs to start becoming more widespread. Once that happens, they'll finally start producing similar products, but with actual page-like screens you can flip yourself. Read 10 or 20 pages of the book, then flip back to the beginning to read another 10 or 20.

Kodak, Sony, and Samsung have already started putting the screens on PDAs, celphones, and digital cameras because the technology uses less power than the latest glass screens they've been using. It has three times the resolution and costs less to manufacture as well.

Details on OLEDs are at:
http://www.emedialive.com/r13/2002/news0906_2.html
http://www.universaldisplay.com/tech.php

 

[tensen]

Until IBM completes their digital ink project, and someone takes the digital paper and forms a book out of it.. that I can download replacement content for what is one the page, then I'm probably not interested in that technology.


I like to have a physical book in my hands.
I like to turn the pages.
I'd rather not have my book cease to work when it gets jostled around in the back of a backpack..
Or.. when I'm out in the middle of the wilderness.. it would be nice not to have to worry about where the battery is.

 

[Cergorach]

The good thing about these displays is that they are being made by HP, HP isn't one to publish prototypes and not release anything. There is way more advanced stuff out there, just like danna said, books where the content can be changed electronically. Such fun stuff might actually replace books...

If HP could make this affordable, this could mean a lot more customers for the e-publishers.