It's good to be back at my virtual home. (I am a huge dork.) Thanks for the well-wishes -- all is well, and I got a chance to see a side of the family that I haven't seen in years.
Anyway, let's get to it:
Color eBooks!
Gizmodo announced last week that the Fujitsu FLEPia Color eBook reader is now available. The units will ship in April, and cost $1,000 (about 2.5 times the cost of the Kindle 2.) The FLEPia uses the same e-paper technology as the Kindle, and the memory is expandable with an SD card (unlike the Kindle.) It features a touch screen (like PaperLogic's device) and uses Wifi. You can read more about the FLEPia on Fujitsu's site (link takes you to Google English translation.)
Okay, so obviously for $1,000 you could also get:
2.5 Kindles
3 Sangria red PRS-505 Sony eReaders
142 Crispy Chicken Caesar salads at McDonalds
73.7 paperback editions of WAR AND PEACE
or
12.3 monthly subway passes [until June 1, when you can only get 9.7 monthly passes if the MTA finance committee votes "yes" today (and again on Wednesday.) GRUMBLE GRUMBLE GRUMBLE MTA!]
BUT, even though the FLEPia is priced out of the reach of the average consumer, it would be wise to think now about how color could enhance a traditional ebook. And, taking it even further, how a touch screen could enhance a color ebook reader. Now, before you start thinking "games on my ebook reader!", e-paper technology refreshes too slow for anything like that to occur in real time (for now...) But, this does mean that perhaps we'll see beautiful e-picture books? Or maybe, depending on the resolution, beautiful books on the arts that can reproduce an image as well as the print edition?
Take a look at the FLEPia... what do you guys think?
Monday, March 23, 2009
First Color eBook Reader is Here!
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6 comments:
Ouch it's $pen$y. I hope they all fall in price soon. I'd love to rectify the purchase a little better.
the price will come down just like iphone - just wait it out :)
Welcome back!
By the way, I like your new blog layout. I'd be up to designing a blog header for you if you like. I love design work and can do pretty much anything. :)
Lady Glamis, that would be amazing! :) I'd be more than happy to trade a 5 page manuscript critique for a snazzy banner -- what do you think?
Tracy, I'm going to email you, but yes, that sounds like a fair trade. :)
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