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Survey of Current E-Readers Liza Daly Keith Fahlgren Three ways to segment e-readers: e-ink e-ink iLiad What is e-ink? Electronic ink is made up of very tiny capsules of electrically-charged pigments. 100,000 of these capsules fit in

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Survey of Current E-Readers

Liza Daly Keith Fahlgren
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Three ways to segment e-readers: e-ink

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e-ink

iLiad

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What is e-ink?

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Electronic ink is made up of very tiny capsules

  • f electrically-charged

pigments.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/iliahi/2606645766/ 100,000 of these capsules fit in a single square inch, providing high resolution.
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Full-size image of Amazon Kindle screen

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Amazon Kindle Sony Reader PRS-505

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Amazon Kindle ECTACO jetBook

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Amazon Kindle Apple iPhone

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Electronic ink refresh

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Electronic ink refresh

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Electronic ink refresh

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Electronic ink requires power only during these page turns.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_a_dickinson/2981053795/
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Electronic ink requires power only during these page turns. This translates to long battery life, especially relative to color PDAs and phones.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rob_a_dickinson/2981053795/
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Readability Battery life

High cost Slow refresh Black & white +

Specialty device

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What’s it like to buy an ebook?

vs.

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a

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3 1 ?

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? ? 1

“Secure Mobipocket?”

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? ? ?

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? ? ? !!!

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+ =

My ideal e-reader

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Stanza

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Bookworm

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Fictionwise

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Yay!

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Hardware Show & T ell

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Plastic Logic

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Thanks!

Liza Daly

liza@threepress.org

Keith Fahlgren

keith@oreilly.com