Amazon Kindle

• Amazon pitches a wireless iPod for books. * Kindle has a price tag of $400. * Enough About Kindle 1.0. What About Kindle 2.0? by Brad Stone about Amazon's eBookReader Kindle.
• Let's Hope Kindle is Only Chapter One by Andy Greenberg agreenberg@forbes.net of Forbes.com Kindle's display is by E Ink, a Cambridge, Massachusetts based company.

PlasticLogic has a prototype of an 8.5 inch reader for books and newspapers.

Other companies are using E Ink technology:

• Philips spin-off Polymer Vision, in Eidhoven, Netherlands, which was spun out of Philips, is developing a 5-inch diagonal display on flexible plastic that rolls up and gets e-mail or maps via 3G wireless networks.
• Philips spin-off iRex Technologies makes the ILIAD and is testing a plastic, electronic newspaper for the French daily paper Les Echos.
• Jinke Electronics in China is shipping Hanlin eReader v2. See also Hanlin eReader v3 with Vizplex for $329.

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