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E Ink agrees to buy SiPix shares

E Ink and LCD technologies has signed a definitive agreement to buy shares of SiPix Technology and its wholly owned subsidiary SiPix Imaging, the maker of electronic paper displays.

E Ink September sales revenues jumped

E InkHoldings the pioneer of TFT and ePaper business, has experienced record high sales revenues in September, with September stand alone revenues totaling NT$ 3.802 billion, representing a growth of 143% compared to last year, and a growth of 44 percent compared to last month.

E-books, E-readers begin to catch on with college crowd

Study finds growing acceptance, but preference for print textbook continues .

World's first colour e-reader?

Chinese manufacturer Hanvon unveiled the World's first color e-ink e-reader at CES 2011 earlier this month. The device uses e-ink technology and has the capability of displaying up to 4096 colours. This is achieved by overlaying a colour filter over the black and white screen to produce the colours. In addition the contrast ratio has doubled over the last year so that the black and white colours still show through the colour filter. Although Barnes & Noble recently announced a color Nook and the Apple iPad has a color screen, both devices use LCD technology used for televisions and monitors.

E ink Pearl wins 2010 PE award for best commercialization

Paper-like E Ink Pearl Display drives multi-billion dollar e-reader market.

IDTechEx Printed Electronics USA 2010 award winners

The fourth annual printed electronics winners were announced on Dec 1st at the IDTechEx Awards Dinner in Santa Clara, USA.

Solar cells, e-books...what next?

2008 was the year of the solar cell, 2009 is marked by the success and growth of the e-book reader market and 2010 will be the year we start to witness further OLED penetration.

Competition fierce in e-reader market

Competition in the e-reader market is fierce and one company in particular is attracting unwanted attention.

QUE proReader by Plastic Logic to be sold in Barnes & Noble stores

Plastic Logic and Barnes & Noble announced that QUE the first proReader designed for business professionals, will be sold through Barnes & Noble's nationwide network of stores and online at Barnes & Noble.com.

Barnes and Noble's e-reader nook - Does it have the edge over Kindle?

The word is out - the new Barnes and Noble e-reader nook is hot and expected to take market share from Amazon's Kindle - But will it?

E-paper display market reaches $1.17 billion in 2014

IDTechEx find that the total market size for e-paper displays in 2010 is $131 million rising to $1.17 Billion in 2014 - this is the value of the display component, not the product.

Plastic Logic partners with Olive Software

Enabling magazines and newspapers to easily publish content to the Plastic Logic eReader.

Barnes & Noble launches world's largest eBookstore

Barnes & Noble, Inc., the world's largest bookseller, announced the launch of the Barnes & Noble eBookstore.