E-paper (Tomáš Zilvar)

ePaper | What is New Tomas Zilvar Prague, 10. November 2009

Future is now The «Newspaper» in Minority Report is soon possible There is video (and update)  Yes: It works  But it is still slow (12, not 24 frames)  It will get better 2

Microsoft future vision…  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9JBSEBu2q8  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIqQHw8VEpw&feature=PlayList&p=657197249C25EF4F&index=11 3

A simple equitation as a start Comparing the evolution of the iPod and the evolution of the ePaperreaders : iPod 2001 and 2008 4

A simple equitation as a start Comparing the evolution of the iPod and the evolution of the ePaperreaders eReadingDevice 2008 and ? :x 5

E ink – what is it 85% of the people say that they prefer to read on eink rather than on normal display 6

A simple equitation as a start Comparing the evolution of the iPod and the evolution of the ePaperreaders iPod 2001 and 2008 eReadingDevice 2008 and ? : = : x The first iPod had a capacity If you like to buy a eReader of 5GB, costed a fortune today, you have to pay more and was heavy like a brick. than $ 300. It is bulky, slow concerning software, not Nowadays you get an iPod very «openminded» and in light as a lighter with 16GB terms of communication for $ 199. deaf and dumb. 7

Huge success of the Amazon Kindle New York Times says: «More than 1 200 000 in first 2 years» (only in US) There is a device There is a concept  eInkdisplay  Builtin communication (GSM)  Focused on books  Target: Mobile heavy readers  Crappy userinterface  Newspapers on board There is a store  Amazonowned Kindle Store  Harsh DigitalRightsManagment (DRM)  User gets only one bill There is a market There is a success  1200 000 devices in first 2 years  Builtin communication (GSM)  More than the first iPod in its first year  Target: Mobile heavy readers  Amazon Kindle 2 rumored before Xmas  Newspapers on board 8

How is the most developed market doing so far? In 2006 – Sony and iRex launched first eBooks. In 2007 – Amazon came with “iTunes kind” solution called Kindle. All 3 technologies use the same producer of eink. It is now belived that more than 1 500 000 devices were sold in last 2 years. This leaded in to major increase in sales of ebooks. More eReaders are within people, more digital sales of ebooks and enewspapers…. www.idpf.org 9

Who is who in eReading? 10

Who is who in eReading? 11

Formats?  XML/html  .prc .mobi  ePub  Kindle AZW  Pdf  Jpg 12

DRM or no DRM? That is the question? 13

End devices technology | on the Czech market Jinke / Bookeen Chinas producer Many names like Bookeen… Sold in CZ Simple and cheap Reading is good 250 USD iiREX best technology These people ivented in Philips eink technology. Linux, wifi, computer like You can write on Expensive 800 euro 14

End devices technology | on the Czech market Sony 15

End devices technology | US Amazon Kindle DX | Kindle 2 International| Barnes & Noble Nook 16

End devices technology | colour 2010 Microsoft | Asus | Apple 17

End devices technology | coming in 2010 18

We have a proof of concept | The «Esquire» merges Print and eInk There is a compromise  Flashy idea  A lot of attention  First ever eInkAdvertisment 19

We have a lot of prototypes Plastic Logic | FirstPaper | Samsung | Polymervision | iRex There is a future  From marvellous to fancy ideas  Lighter  Flexible or even rollable 20

We have color soon But: You will miss the brilliance There is color  Yes: It is actually in color  Technical limitation  No: It will not go better 21

eReading without eInk | The iPhone case It is not (only) about the iPhone, it is about the dataflatrates Reading will change quickly Mobile Internet is a commodity  20 milion  Cheap dataflatrates  Android and Windows mobile apps  The internet onthego  Colours, sounds and flashes  Wireless distribution of our content  Text to speech functonality 22

Stanza Reader – This is just a beginning FREE FREE FREE!!! Makes a book of your phone Stanza is leading with more than 500 000 downloads Kindle has one Microsoft eReader is on Gutenberg is working on one Android And it is free for rising community of the owners of the new smartphones iApps for newspapers Text Reading in public Colour transport 23

Concepts without eInk | eReading on decent screens The future will bring bigger and lighter screens that customers have with them Netbooks could be the next thing  It is only a mockup  But the future could look like that  Preapre for eReading 24

Projekt Gutenberg starts Kindle for Eastern Europe It is: app for digital distribution, it has payment system, it has eReaders distribution, it has public domain, students and user generated content, it has promotion and support from one of biggest media house in CEE. It has 3 years history of experiences. It has support from major book publishers in the Czech rep. 25

Czech Publishers – Next steps  Some of them are ready but mostly they must start  Nearly all of them support the process  It is process which will take years  New markets  They must redefine their biz model  Copyrights issues – from provision model with deposit in to 100% share model with no deposit  eBooks are not pdfs!!! This will cost money  It is also an issue of EU nad MK funding  Long tail theory proofs it is worth of some investment  Every publisher must establish the digital distribution department 26

Questions  ? 27

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