E-paper technology will have a steep hill to climb in the credibility stakes with people called "Arsenaut" in charge.

Fortunately for the E-paper industry's chances of being listened to by people not giggling their heads off, the CTO of Opalux is not a Mr. Bottom-sailor, but rather a M. ArsenauLt. Admittedly this is only marginally less amusing (at least to the non-Québécois) than Inq's "typo".

Great typo though.

What I want in a bookreader is contrast and rez matching paper. Don't care about video, don't care about colours, don't care about mobile connectivity. You seem to be treating them as tablet PCs, so what? I'm supposed to lay a grand on the table for an underpowered, overhyped thingy that plays youtube good but has an awful screen for reading?

I downloaded Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy off the internet in 1991, tried to read it on the screen. Not pleasant. As far as reading is concerned; screens haven't improved at all. The characteristics of CRT, LCD, Plasma or whatever *SUCK* for reading. Don't want 'em.

Maybe you forgot to mention Pixel QI , Mary Lou Jepsen's company.

Great, textbooks that can be readily 'updated'. Sure, make it easier for Marxist revisionists to do their job. Great idea.

What's next? "Sayings of Chairman Barry"? Updated daily to incorporate latest lies?

until they make a breakthrough in animating irritating ads and squeezing them into the margins of next gen ebooks.

What a boon to humanity that will be o.o

I can quite easily imagine the benefits of being able to embed video into e-book versions of reference texts - e.g. a physics textbook which can show you animated examples of Newtons laws of motion, or an art reference book which could show you a full 360 degree walkaround of a sculpture, or a DIY guide with animation/video instead of (or, ideally, in addition to) the step by step diagrams/photos...

The whole reason for e-ink is that it can be read easily in sunlight unlike a conventional display. If that ability is removed then so is the usefulness.

Another thing, why this obsession on video in e-book readers?