Eoin Purcell
[via Ryan Sholin's blog (well worth reading by the way)]
Wow
Red Herring reports on a huge investment by Oak Investment Partners and Tudor Investment Corporation in an e-paper venture:
In one of the largest venture capital rounds in European history, Plastic Logic announced Wednesday that it had raised $100 million to build a factory in Germany to make display modules for electronic reader products.
Now that is a fat chunk of cash and Ryan has some further points on the implications of e-paper. I have mentioned them here too. It looks like, over the past few days, as if people are moving to stack their cards in the right pile for digital and that all of a sudden the corporate world is seriously considering the changes the digital revolution is forcing on the world of publishing and actually acting to get ahead of the curve.
Interesting times indeed
Eoin
Filed under: Books, Bookselling, Future of Books, Future of Publishing, Innovation, Reading, e-paper, e-publishing, ebooks, Print, Print On Demand, Publishing Companies, Reading, Tech & Web stuff, Trend Vs Fad Watch
e-paper is the most exciting display element we’ve heard about. I think no-one’s really settled the question of choice and delivery yet, although Macmillan’s BookStore might be leading the way (as you’ve written about before).
I’d prefer reading in my native language, because my knowledge of your languange is no so well. But it was interesting! Look for some my links: