This week we learnt about multimedia. I thought the idea of E-newspaper is very fascinating, and this happened to be one area that i have never got into, and thus, e-newspaper will be my this week's entry.
Firstly, i think the future lies in I.T related products and e-newspaper is just the begining. Personally, i am wondering, how many would pay for the amount that one has to pay to buy the e-newspaper. I mean, such product would not come cheap and i guess those who would buy such newspaper are the businessmen, who always need to be updated with news and are always on the go, thus this add to their convenience.
The technology of e-newspaper should have been around for sometimes as there are a couple of model available for sale. One of the older version would be Amazon Kindle and Sony eReader. The latest upcoming model would be manufactured by Plastic Logic and the name has yet to be named but it is expected to launch in the United States sometime this year.
The image of the different e-newspaper
From left: Plastic Logic, Sony eReader and Amazon Kindle
credits: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/technology/08ink.html
One of the benefit of the e-newspaper in my opinion would be that one would save more in the long run. Putting cost aside, without paper, means one can save the earth as we need not cut down on trees. I feel with both cost advantage and enviornmental advantage, it would be really a plausible plan in the future.
Although it is still costly at the moment, (i.e Amazon Kindle- $260USD about $400 SGD), i feel that in the future when it is a norm that everyone is using an e-newspaper, the price of it would eventually drop.
To sum it, eventually e-newspaper would eleminate the convention newspaper as it is definately more convenient with an e-paper, and with the long term cost saving and enviornmental friendly advantage, the future no doubt lies in e-newspaper.
This is a video on e-newspaper.
~me~ at 10:51 PM