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Flexible electronic books to hit market soon

By Paul Marks

18 February 2009

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Plastic Logic’s new e-book reader will be bendy and bouncy, the UK company says

(Image: Plastic Logic)

GADGET-makers have long promised us a flexible electronic book, but actually producing a robust, bendy screen has proved tough – until now.

Plastic Logic, a display technology company based in Cambridge, UK, says it will launch the first flexible electronic book in January.

The two most popular e-books on the market, the Sony Reader and Amazon Kindle, are paperback book-sized devices that use first-generation black and white electronic “ink” displays. These consist of a plastic sheet containing pixel-sized voids, each filled with black and…

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