e-Book Echo: Color Coming?

ReaderOur platform focus continues this fine Sunday with the e-Book Echo, our take on the week in the digital publishing world. The e-book world has been full of product announcements of late, and this week saw things quiet down. The wait is on for the appearance of all the new e-book readers that have been announced right and left lately. Samsung is an electronic giant with a lot of resources, so when they start talking about color e-book screens we sit up and listen. This week they demonstrated a very early prototype of a color e-paper using E-Ink technology. Samsung believes they will be able to bring the color display to market in a couple of years, adding fuel to the color e-book fire.

PVI is another company that makes reader displays, and they are ramping up to produce color screens for them in the last half of 2010. The company currently produces black and white displays, and may have color screens using AMOLED technology appearing soon.

Netbook creator ASUS is talking up making its own e-book reader, and bringing it to market early next year. The company has been investigating products they can produce to address competition in the netbook segment, and e-book readers is one such product. They are expected to make a reader announcement before the end of the year.

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