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Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen

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Re: Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen

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Post by Zikes »

logfromblammo wrote: post #2

At $8.95 apiece, $1100 can buy you 122 mass-market paperbacks. I certainly hope that someone can bring that retail price down a fair chunk, or this tech is not going far.

Many new technologies are prohibitively expensive, but we have to start somewhere.

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Post by bashcoder »

Meanwhile, today I get an email from Sony saying that their Reader store closed on March 20, and that it has ceded its customers to Kobo, which spawned from Canada's Chapters Indigo. [0]

While this tech may be notable, Sony continues to have a fatally misaligned device/content strategy.

[0] http://www.kobobooks.com/SonyMigrate

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bashcoder wrote: post #4

Meanwhile, today I get an email from Sony saying that their Reader store closed on March 20, and that it has ceded its customers to Kobo, which spawned from Canada's Chapters Indigo. [0] While this tech may be notable, Sony continues to have a fatally misaligned device/content strategy. [0] http://www.kobobooks.com/SonyMigrate

What is wrong with just offering a reader without forcing its users to also buy the books from the same source?

I own a Sony reader and I actually enjoy that it is not tightly bundled with a bookstore.

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Post by rch »

logfromblammo wrote: post #2

At $8.95 apiece, $1100 can buy you 122 mass-market paperbacks. I certainly hope that someone can bring that retail price down a fair chunk, or this tech is not going far.

I'm in the market. At one point I tried a Logitech Io2, even though I knew it was too awkward to really work.

At this price point lifetime is what I'm looking for; a moleskine replacement that could last 6-10 years would be interesting to me, even if it isn't perfect (refresh rates, and so on). Of course data accessibility is a concern with Sony too.

Re: Sony releases the Holy Grail: A flexible e-ink screen

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Post by psc »

This technology is really cool, too bad it seems like there wasn't much thought put into making an appealing product out of it. Just imagine how much more you could do with a flexible display, rather than just reading PDFs and writing notes. From the video, the UI looks mediocre, and this is just a guess, but I wouldn't expect the software to be great. It feels like Sony just wrapped up a really cool hardware prototype in a shell and decided to sell it, but the whole thing lacks any sort of polish. I can't wait for someone who cares about the details of a product to get a hold of flexible e-ink screens.
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