Ready for Electronic Newspaper? May Be Just Around The Corner
I’m anxious to see electronic paper in person. I hope I get the chance since it appears to be the future of newspapers.
Electronic paper technology, one of the newspaper industry’s most exciting innovations, could be available to newspapers as early as 2009. Ryosuke Kuwata, vice president of E Ink Corp’s Asia Pacific region, revealed today in an interview that developers are getting close to unveiling the technology.
I’m not sure I buy this assertion:
Kuwata says US newspaper companies have been ahead of the game, pursuing electronic newspaper technology before Japanese companies. European papers, he says, have “just began to move.”
If they are “ahead of the game” they are keeping awfully quiet about it. Since there is no competitive advantage to being the “first” seems that news would be pouring out.
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