E-Newspaper hitting stands?

You might be saying goodbye to your fresh crisp newspaper in the morning and making way for the new e-paper. With the decline of newspaper sales, many newspaper companies are trying to target more of their readers through mobile devices.

De Tijd, a Belgian financial newspaper, has been testing a electronic device called the iLiad E-reader that used low power digital screens embedded with digital ink and form images in response to electrical charge. 

The devices will reflect light and weight about 13 OZ so it will be easy enough to carry them around with you. Your paper can be updated in Wi-Fi hot spots and through your Internet connection. The screen is touch sensitive and can be used as a notebook. It will not display color but offers 16 shades of gray.

De Tijd is not the only company that is testing new devices to display their newspapers on. The International Herald Tribune newspaper who is owned by the New York Times Company have also been testing e-paper devices and might be announcing their subscriptions for e-paper as early as this year. It looks as though it might be a race to see who will become the iPod of the newspapers.

Sony is offering its own e-reader for about $400 USD that will allow you to download newspapers and books. 

With the newspapers cutting a lot of paper and labor costs out I hope the subscriptions are low cause $400 USD is a little steep to read my newspaper.

You might be saying goodbye to your fresh crisp newspaper in the morning and making way for the new e-paper. With the decline of newspaper sales, many newspaper companies are trying to target more of their readers through mobile devices.

De Tijd, a Belgian financial newspaper, has been testing a electronic device called the iLiad E-reader that used low power digital screens embedded with digital ink and form images in response to electrical charge. 

The devices will reflect light and weight about 13 OZ so it will be easy enough to carry them around with you. Your paper can be updated in Wi-Fi hot spots and through your Internet connection. The screen is touch sensitive and can be used as a notebook. It will not display color but offers 16 shades of gray.

De Tijd is not the only company that is testing new devices to display their newspapers on. The International Herald Tribune newspaper who is owned by the New York Times Company have also been testing e-paper devices and might be announcing their subscriptions for e-paper as early as this year. It looks as though it might be a race to see who will become the iPod of the newspapers.

Sony is offering its own e-reader for about $400 USD that will allow you to download newspapers and books. 

With the newspapers cutting a lot of paper and labor costs out I hope the subscriptions are low cause $400 USD is a little steep to read my newspaper.