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Originally Posted by solitarywolf
I dont know much about it, but Hearst Publishing is talking about releasing an E-Reader that will be larger for use with their publications; newspapers and magazines.
Can anyone chime in and provide more info on this? Perhaps this could be what your are waiting for?
-Seth Williams,
San Francisco, CA
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Hearst was one of the big money-men behind the founding of E Ink in Cambridge. I did a blog entry on an article that looks at the Esquire E-Ink cover used for its 75th Anniversary issue (Oct '08). There are details of his involvement and history, in the article , so it's no surprise that he would be behind the switch to an E-Reader (they say it will be either Plastic Logic- or iRex-based) as a last-resort.
It's in the middle of
http://kindleworld.blogspot.com
The SF Chronicle, Hearst says, is going under, and he's said they're banking on the e-reader version to save it if it can be saved. That' s the last I read, but there was more news yesterday though I didn't see the details.
- Andrys (from San Francisco and not happy about the local paper going under)