Comments on: Big new Plastic Logic display on sale next year with wireless possibilities: E-newspapers, anyone—not just e-books?

By: Binko

Binko — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 01:59:16 +0000

If this screen is both durable and affordable it could be a huge hit. Maintenance manuals, textbooks, repair diagrams, mechanics repair guides and tons of other uses come to mind.

By: Greg Schofield

Greg Schofield — Tue, 09 Sep 2008 00:30:37 +0000

Size is important, and at A4 this could be a real asset to all forms of non-fiction reading.

Price is the next thing. If it could be held down, of go down in a reasonable period, it could be the first e-ink reader purchased as multiple items. I could use at least three when researching (which is my current job).

It would need the option of using the local computer as a document server. PDF, EPUB, HTML and might I suggest WORD and OpenOffice support — amongst others of course.

It would of course be a real bonus, because of size, for e-magazine and e-newsletter productions.

I have been waiting for a bigger device for a while.

By: Daniel Udsen

Daniel Udsen — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:22:25 +0000

Newspapers make a bit more sense then e-books because firstly the market is there, today millions of people get most of their daily news reading from a screen, secondly todays newspapers is worth less then toilet paper so theres not a big issue of postiority if the gizmo breaks you dont loose an importent libary of content.

And most importently the main financial model is subdcription and adds not individual sales this means you can use the leasing model instead of having to put the full prize tag on the gizmo up front.