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Interesting video of a dual display ebook reader. Design is based on usability analyses of how people use printer materials.

Awesome company. Be sure to check out the Mirasol story. I heard about this technology from a Forbes article on the thinnest, lightest e-reader by Qualcomm. 

Kindle for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad can now display embedded video and audio clips for Kindle e-books, courtesy of the latest upgrade to the app. Read this blog post by Lance Whitney on Digital Media.

Best Buy announced on Sept. 9 that it will begin selling Amazon's Kindle in stores. Best Buy will then be the only retailer where consumers can compare, in person, the Nook, Kindle, and Sony readers, plus the iPad.

A preview at what will be next for E-Ink technology that impacts the next generation of e-readers.

Monday, February 16, Adobe unveiled its new Adobe Reader Mobile 9 SDK (Software Development Kit), which will enable companies to more easily distribute and display ebooks in PDF and EPUB formats on mobile phones, ereaders and other mobile devices.

The debate is over what parts of the online display-ad ecosystem, estimated to be worth $7.9 billion in 2010, are adding value for publishers or brands.

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An all-digital, luxury lifestyle magazine called VIVmag offers a glimpse of how magazine publishers could take advantage of the iPad's large, interactive color display.

Will color really be disruptive by 2012?

SEATTLE — A color version of Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle e-reader may come eventually, but it won't be soon. Speaking Tuesday at the online retailer's annual shareholder meeting in Seattle, founder and CEO Jeff Bezos said that adding color to the Kindle's "electronic ink" display is a difficult technical challenge and that a color screen is "still a long way out."

A Taiwanese company, Prime View International, plans to pay $215 million to acquire E-Ink, which owns the technology for displaying text in e-readers such as the Amazon Kindle and the Sony Reader.

Taiwan's DigiTimes is reporting today that Apple has decided to postpone the launch of its pending tablet product until the second half of 2010. The main reason for the supposed delay is switch in the displays being used: Apple, the...

Are textbooks history in the digital era? : States across the country are slashing education budgets, forcing schools to cut expenses. One option getting a lot of attention is digital textbooks. Stacey Vanek-Smith reports.