As part of our correspondence related to Dan's Taiwan article, below, he related this little anecdote that I thought I should share with you. Dan says: Recently I spoke with a top book editor in Taiwan, Linden Lin: "When asked whether he was concerned that the digital age might do away completely with printed books, the bookish, middle-aged Mr Lin in Taiwan, a book editor, merely smiles and says, “We’re still using candles for some things, aren’t we?”...

Contributor Dan Bloom has published a long article about E Ink in the Taiwan Review. He discusses the company's past, present and future. Here's a snippet about some of the stuff they are working on: PVI is also working to deploy E Ink to render text on devices other than e-readers, Scott Liu says. Imagine a device the size of a credit card with a small screen that runs on E Ink technology and can be used for more than two years on a single battery charge. That is the future, Liu says, and other products could include smart...

Editor's Note: Occasional Teleread contributor Danny Bloom has a blog post here about Prime View International and E Ink and what the future might hold for the Taiwanese company. Here is the beginning. PB TAIPEI, TAIWAN -- This blogpost begins with toilet paper and ends with electronic ink. Read on and you'll find out what I'm talking about, as I key in this article from my electronic cave in Taiwan. It's about Prime View International (PVI), the Taiwanese company that is putting E Ink on the world map in a novel way and writing a new chapter in the history of...

On TeleRead founder David Rothman’s The Solomon Scandals blog, Rothman links to a love song to printed newspapers by journalist Danny Bloom, “I Just Can’t Live (Without My Daily Snailpaper)”.  It’s a remarkable song, full of nostalgia about various newspapers and personalities associated with them. It definitely grows on you over its 6-minute length. But at the other end of the spectrum is the TechCrunch piece in which Erick Schonfeld talks about a recent conversation with Netscape-founder Marc Andreesen. Bringing up the legend that Cortez ordered his ships burned upon arrival in the New World to make...