Will newspapers survive in the digital world? I already unsubscribed to the The Dallas Morning News because I can get all the information that I need from news Web sites. It’s amazing to me that electronic readers are looking more like books. I still love holding REAL books and perusing through a newspaper. But, that paper newspaper doesn’t give you automatic updates if breaking news happens. Real newspapers are old news by noon. That’s the problem.
New E-Newspaper Reader Echoes Look of the Paper
Newspaper companies have watched the technology closely for years. The ideal format, a flexible display that could be rolled or folded like a newspaper, is still years off, says E Ink. But it foresees color displays with moving images and interactive clickable advertising coming in only a few more years, according to Sriram K. Peruvemba, vice president for marketing for E Ink.
E Ink expects that within the next few years it will be able to create technology that allows users to write on the screen and view videos. At a recent demonstration at E Ink’s headquarters here, the company showed prototypes of flexible displays that can create rudimentary colors and animated images. “By 2010, we will have a production version of a display that offers newspaperlike color,” Mr. Peruvemba said.
