..well it isn’t nigh, but the first signs of the end of newspaper are out there.
Yesterday saw the announcement by LG.Philips of the first A4 colour e-paper. The ePaper is a flexible panel that is as thin as paper and is best used to display reading material. It only uses power when the page content changes, and the quality, at least for the black and white versions, is meant to be awesome – indeed for this “the images displayed are comparable in quality to printed pages”
When this technology matures you will be able to read your books, newspapers and magazines as and where you do now, but the content will be loaded electronically.
Right now the prices are too high, but the future is coming, with Displaybank predicting almost US$6 Billion will be spent on these things in 2010. Don’t believe those numbers? Judge for your self – and read the handy 160 page DisplayBank report on the Flexible Display Technology and Market (2007-2017). Don’t forget to pay the $US6500. (and send me a copy)
Lance Wiggs 
Nice idea, but useless in practice. I’m sure it’ll kill off newsprint and enable further synergistic networked news media consolidation but… will unemployed journos be able to stuff ePaper under their clothes to keep warm as they sleep rough for instance?
It looks like the only way you can light fires with it is if the batteries explode. Not good, not good…
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