In my recent post “Do newspapers face a tough road ahead,” I suggested that newspapers might re-invent themselves by using digital technology. Just ten days later, an article published in the New York Times article announces that the electronic newspaper has already arrived. In “One Day Soon, Straphangers May Turn Pages With a Button,” Doreen Carvajal writes:
This month, De Tijd, a Belgian financial newspaper, started testing versions of electronic paper, a device with low-power digital screens embedded with digital ink -millions of microscopic capsules the width of a human hair made with organic material that display light or dark images in response to electrical charges. This is only one test of new e-paper devices competing to become the iPod of the newspaper business. Other e-paper trials are being undertaken by the paper Les Echos, which is based here, by the newspaper trade group IFRA in Germany and, in the United States, by The New York Times.
Registered subscribers to the New York Times can read the full article here.
A related story, spotted on CRIEnglish.com, describes news delivery to mobile phone screens in China. Read the story here.
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