Consumer electronics giant Samsung is the latest company to turn away from e-paper, says technology news website Übergizmo.
The company will maintain a presence in e-readers, but will release a new model in 2011 using an LCD, according to the article.
A number of e-reader developments have been shelved in recent months. Plastic Logic withdrew its planned first-generation product, the Que, saying the market had moved on. Further casualties include iRex, Foxit and Interead, all of which have struggled in the e-reader industry.
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Übergizmo report
Article from the technology news website on Samsung’s shelved e-paper development
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European telecoms company says better e-readers will open subscription market
The telecoms industry is putting pressure on e-reader developers and finalising business models for subscription packages to newspapers and magazines
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The Electronic Displacement of Print
A Pira market report with forecasts to 2018 of e-paper, e-readers and other innovations and technologies displacing and impacting print
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