The color model – developed by Delta Electronics Inc. and expected to go on sale by December – stood out among a number of monochrome e-readers at the Computex Show in Taiwan.<\/p>\n
Named e-Magazine, the model uses particle-based technologies that Delta has developed in collaboration with Japan’s Bridgestone Corp., in contrast with ink-based technologies available in the market.<\/p>\n
The 13-inch display would allow users to read a magazine page by page without scrolling it up and down like the smaller sized e-readers on the market, said Delta executive Hui Lee.<\/p>\n
E-Magazine – about half the weight of Apple Inc.’s iPad – is made especially for professionals to read magazines or documents with color charts, Lee said.<\/p>\n
Apple’s iPad and some e-readers sport LCD displays, which can show color. But those are harder to see in sunlight, cause eye-fatigue and consume much more power than the e-paper displays used in other e-readers.<\/p>\n
While Delta’s new technology is yet to be tested by the market, most other e-readers displayed at the industry show use ink-based displays.<\/p>\n
Taiwan, a leading player in the digital book market, also supplies monochrome displays for Amazon’s Kindle and Sony’s e-Readers.<\/p>\n
A leading supplier of the e-paper displays is Prime View International Co., a Taiwanese firm that obtained the cutting-edge electronic ink technologies by acquiring Cambridge, Mass.-based E-Ink.<\/p>\n
At the show, Acer Inc., the world’s second largest PC vendor, displayed a 6-inch e-reader, Lumiread. It comes with a camera that allows a user to scan a book’s bar code to find out if it has a digital version for downloading.<\/p>\n
Acer is working with leading publishers in the U.S., China and Germany to market the product in the third quarter this year, said company executive Trisha Pan.<\/p>\n
Also using the e-paper displays is Hanwang Technology Co., a leading Chinese electronics firm which sold 266,000 e-readers last year, mostly in China.<\/p>\n
Having marketed a 5-inch e-reader in 2008, Hanwang also displayed its latest 6-inch model that went on sale last month.<\/p>\n
Hanwang Chairman Liu Yingjian said the Chinese firm is seeking Taiwanese partners to jointly explore the world market, noting Taiwan’s full hardware supply chain and its rich Chinese-language book content.<\/p>\n
E-paper technologies are being developed at a fast pace.<\/p>\n
Prime View has announced plans to develop e-inks for color display as well as a rollable paper display that can be folded.<\/p>\n
Delta’s Lee said the company hopes to develop in two to three years particle-based displays that can display sharper colors like magazine pages, instead of the more shady colors its e-Magazine now displays.<\/p>\n
No price tag was given for e-Magazine. Lee said publishers may offer the e-readers free with a two or three years magazine subscription.<\/p>\n
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