Here are some interesting news updates and other Kindle related links -
- Tom Engelhardt’s excellent blog post – The Axe, the Book, and the Ad. He’s written a book titled “The Last Days of Publishing” and the blog post is definitely worth a read.
- New York Governor David Paterson is proposing taxes on iTunes downloads, and Kindle eBooks -
New York Gov. David Paterson has proposed levying a new batch of taxes on digitally delivered entertainment services … The digital entertainment tax is part of a proposal that includes 88 new fees and other taxes — on items like taxi rides, beer, massages and movie tickets — intended to help close a $15.4 billion budget gap in the state.
I think it should start becoming clearer to people that all the bailouts are going to be funded by the people – sometimes sooner rather than later.
- Researchers at USC’s Viterbi school have succeeded in creating a potential ePaper technology -
It’s a clear, colorless disk about 5 inches in diameter that bends and twists like a playing card, with a lattice of more than 20,000 nanotube transistors capable of high-performance electronics printed upon it using a potentially inexpensive low-temperature process … It could also be used to create cheap, ultra thin, low-power “e-paper” displays.
And yes – the clear, colorless 5 inch diameter disk you see (barely) in the picture has 20,000 nanotube transistors. Amazing.
Colorless Printable Nanotube Technology
- Rand McNally is offering Digital Atlases for the Kindle – Washington State, Northern California, and Southern California (each for $1.59). Pretty Cool, and thanks to MarketWatch for breaking the news.
Washington State Road Atlas for Kindle
- This post on ‘EBooks close to market break-through’ made me realize something – The combination of adjustable font sizes and not needing a computer class to understand how to use it = Technology actually working for people. And that the market for the Kindle is going to keep growing as more and more Baby Boomers retire.
- Finally, a post on Patent Prowess in IEEE Spectrum shows eInk and competitor SiPix amongst the top 10 in Computer Peripherals and Storage. And that HP, Phillips Electronis, and Xerox have filed patents citing eInk and SiPix’s patents. HP is explained as the HP-ASU joint project on flexible displays (5th item on the list), and the Phillips Electronics patent is probably eInk andPVI. The Xerox patents are news to me.
Patents (courtesy IEEE Spectrum)
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