E Ink: the future of newspapers?

Monday, September 8th, 2008

A video has gone up of Esquire’s lovely new E Ink cover, which you can see here. The promise of these things is immense. Imagine a newspaper with content that can be updated over the course of the day, so that the lead changes, stories are amended and breaking news is delivered to your morning newspaper.

Instead of buying a static newspaper for 60p, you buy 12 hours worth of news for £2. Then you go out and do it again tomorrow. It’s quite a cool idea, especially for folk like my dad, who buy their paper in the morning, read it at lunch and then probably won’t look at the news again until they get home from work and flick ITV on.

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