eBook Sales Up in May; HP Working on Color Reflective Displays no comments
The Association of American Publishers reports that ebook sales for the month of May increased by 162.8 percent from last year and were up 207.4 percent year-to-date. Sales of ebooks by the publishers surveyed now make up 8.48 percent of their total trade books sales.
Downloaded audio books also saw a large gain of 72.9 percent over last year, and are up 33.3 percent year-to-date.
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HP is another company that is working on color reflective displays. Technology Review has an article on their efforts. HP’s approach is to develop luminescent materials to solve the dimness problems inherent in non-backlit color displays. It sounds as though HP is still in the early stages of development and their color epaper technology likely won’t be hitting the market anytime soon.
The light loss issue is why E Ink’s new Pearl display (used in the new Kindle DX Graphite) came about. E Ink’s approach to color electrophoretic displays is to place a color filter over a monochrome e-ink display which dims the display down. This is why a display with much better contrast was necessary.
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