Turbulence in the market. Price erosion. Cost engineered to lower price point.
Ereaders are now greatly different from tablets.
Content is truly the most important asset. Only device manufacturers that have good control of content have survived.
B&N really successful in increasing subscriptions, up 150% from previous 12 months (magazines on nook color)
There will be a split of fit-for-purpose and multi-purpose devices.
Electrowetting. Hydrophobic surface. Apply voltage to cause liquid to be attracted or repelled. B&W would be an electrolyte and black oil. Contract or relax the oil.
Very light efficient. Also can be used in transflective.
Scalable size. No limits to size possible. Up to 16 million colors. Not bistable like eink (looses image with loss of power). Refresh rate can be scaled down for text, up for video. (Down to 1 hz)
90% compatible with manufacture of LCD (requires very little tool-up)
Can be manufactured on flexible substrate (prevents breakage especially in large size like 12" & 14")
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