Right What You No: E-reader screens: better than a paperback.

Have you ever wanted to know more about your e-reader? This is an interview with the vice president of E Ink, Sriram Peruvemba. E Ink is the company that makes the displays for all the leading e-book readers worldwide.

I found this interview on e-reader displays very interesting. Did you know that:

E ink Pearl display panels are only 200 microns thick.
The newer Triton displays are half as thick as the Pearl displays.
E ink expects to sell between 25 and 30 million e-reader displays this year.

That's up 10 million from last year and 3 million the year before that.

Current displays are 167 dpi and they are hoping to increase that to 300 dpi soon.
Current displays actually have better contrast than a paperback book!

Older displays were only better than newspaper.

In case you didn’t know, E Ink also makes screens for a bunch of other things besides e-readers. They have E Ink watches, advertising signs, secondary displays on cellphones, USB sticks, and they are even moving onto credit cards. Essentially anything up to a kilometre long, they can make it!