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Originally Posted by Donnageddon
I mean, what is the point of "printing" future periodicals with eInk displays? That defeats the whole purpose of reusable, portable book (or magazine) readers.
But I guess I would not be that surprised to see the traditional paper publishers taking the innovation of eInk displays and making just more landfill rubbish of it.
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well, this is just the beginning. for the moment, it's not feasible to replace periodicals with e-ink completely, and obviously there's no point in manufacturing periodicals with a new e-ink display embedded in them monthly. but i could imagine that someday a newsstand could also propose some kind of digital kiosk ; you would have your e-ink "magazine" (color display ? flexible ? larger screen ?) which you kept, and via bluetooth (or something) you could charge it with whatever magazine or newspaper you wanted. perhaps you could even do this from a distance, automatically as you walked past, if you were a subscriber. i read an article which described such a projection, i wish i could remember where i found it...
as i said, i think the key interest of this particular proposition is to open the way for better-suited, more elaborate uses in the near future.