E-readers

Although Sony have been using E-ink for years, it was the Amazon Kindle on the left that really showed there was a demand for e-readers. Amazon couldn't make enough of them to meet domand and the Kindle 2 is now predicted to make ebooks mainstream.

It still doesn't handle pdf documents very well though so we're still a step or two away from the days of illegal downloads of books bringing the publishing business to its knees.

Sony signed a deal with Google though to make available its digital library to the Sony Reader and also massively cut the price to set the dogs on the Kindle.

But there are other e-ink devices hitting the market, some of them with flexiscreens which will transform the way we read forever. Plastic Logic hope to make waves this year with their flexiscreen reader big enough to handle the layout of a newspaper or magazine.

Then there's the Readius flexiscreen reader which fits into your pocket and then scrolls out. The Readius has hit financial problems in development but looks to be the next thing in flexiscreens as it's compact, doubles up as a phone and refreshes faster than other readers on the market.

For comprehensive coverage of E-reader developments check out Wired's round-up of the latest flexiscreen and stiff e-readers on the market.

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