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Electronic Paper Display and its impact on the Scholarly Information Chain

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Why on paper?


The start of the chain is promising:
Content creation is done electronically
Indexing and searching is done electronically
(bulk) transport is done electronically
But then things go wrong….
Books and newspapers are printed
Personal content is printed
We read most of it on paper!
WHY?
Readers: Ease of use, readability, history
Publishers: Copyright
Distributors & Printers: Livelihood



Yet, there are many opportunities


Cycle times are much faster in the electronic cycle
Scientific, business
Significant cost reduction can be reached
Final part of distribution chain
Printing cost
Easy access to large library



Historic trials and errors



An astonishing number of different e-reading devices has been constructed.

None really work(ed)!! (in the broadest sense..)

Why not?
Size / weight
Battery life
Low brightness / flicker
Bad DRM system
Lack of content
Wrong “style”..?
Filling a need that isn‘t there.

So: Combinations of technical and marketing errors