Once upon a time came e-books: they were glass, small, and fragile…

• First product to market:

6″ Sony LIBRIé, Japan, April ‘04

600 pixel × 800 pixel display resolution.

170 dots per inch.

300 grams (10.6 oz) with case and batteries (190 grams / 6.7 oz without).

126 millimeters (5 in) by 190 millimeters (7.5 in) by 13 millimeters (0.5 in).

• 6″ Sony Reader CES‘06 US launch, Q4 ‘06

Distribution deal with Borders and access to published online eBooks through ‗Sony Connect‘ resolves DRM issues

4 levels grayscale; 160 DPI 800 MHz Celeron class processor or better

Initially priced at $399, Now $299.

• 6″ Hanlin eReaderV3

Chinese and Western market versions.

launched in Q1 ‘06. Coming soon V9, EOY ‘07.

10‖ Flexible display. 825×1200, 4 levels grayscale.

Sumsung® Arm 9 200Mhz.

• 8.1″ iRex Technologies iLiad

Available B2B/Web Retail from Q3 ‘06. Includes stylus based, touch panel input.

.768×1024, 16 levels grayscale, 160 DPI. DRM offering Mobipocket Q2 ‘07.

Intel® 400MHz XScale™ processor. 256 MB RAM, 128 MB available for user, expandable via USB, MMC or CF cards.

• 6″ Bookeen CyBook Q4 ‘07

600×800, 4 levels, 160 DPI. First Western market

product to launch with E Ink® Vizplex.

Samsung® S3C2410 ARM920T 200MHz. Mobipocket DRM.

64 MB, expandable via SD card.

Until Now!

Wearable displays using E Ink® flexible display technology are on the horizon.

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Polymer Vision is in agreement with Telecom Italia to offer Readius, a rollout flexible display.

• Visualization of a flexible

electronic reader product Click to enlarge

The British company, Plastic Logic Limited has completed a new production site for a total of 96 million euro near Dresden, Germany. From 2008, a new generation of flexible displays, known as ―electronic paper displays‖ (e-paper displays) will be produced at the factory, a global first.

• Conceptual

first integrated conformal

display system

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flexible display

Half opened

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• A rollout

Unique today and for as far as one can peerinto the horizon, there is only one e-bookwith pen tablet capabilities.

10.2 Inch (diagonal) electronic paper display 1024 x 1280 pixel resolution at 160 pixels per inch 16-level grey scale

Available to purchase today at 699 EUR (or $859 USD)

Lewis D. Gudmundsen, Good E-books, llc Once upon a time came e-books: they were glass, small and fragile… UNTIL NOW!

The 14.1-inch flexible color E-paper uses electronic ink from E-Ink Corp. to produce a maximum of 4,096 colors. It can be viewed from a full 180 degrees, so that images always appear crisp, even when the display is bent.

Plastic Logic reader product, available 1st Quarter 2010.