This coming weekend an interview with Michael Hart about Digital Libraries will be broadcast on NPR [National Public Radio]. In this interview he was also joined by Brewster Kahle (The Internet Archive) and Michael Keller (Librarian of Stanford).
Michael specifically talks about wearing Digital Libraries on a necklace, Terabyte hard drives and creating a Billion eBook Library.
E Ink Corporation, the leading provider of electronic paper display (EPD) technology, today announced the launch of its next-generation electronic ink technology, offering significant improvements in performance and shipping under the new trade name VizplexTM Imaging Film.
“E Ink continues to be at the forefront of the electronic paper revolution. This is a major improvement because the electronic ink in the imaging film switches twice as fast and the image is 20 percent brighter,” said Russ Wilcox, president and CEO of E Ink. “We gave it the distinctive Vizplex name so that everyone can easily recognize the next generation. Simultaneously, we are enhancing our whole solution with more screen sizes, improved electronics, support for more gray levels, and developer kits for prototyping.”
While talks about cutting-edge smartphones dominated last year’s Digital Book Conference—the International Digital Publishing Forum’s annual e-publishing conference in New York—the focus of the morning session this year was market feedback on the progress of devices like the Sony Reader and the introduction of new ones, such as Telecom Italia’s pocket-sized Librofonio, which is expect to be introduced in the U.S. late this year. Panelists and attendees also debated when a breakthrough device or technology will make digital publishing a profitable business.
Previously only available direct from China and Taiwan, the STAReBOOK can now be purchased from their first international online shop opened in New Zealand.
