Amazon chooses E Ink for its eBook
E Ink Corp. said that its Vizplex Imaging Film-based electronic paper display has been chosen by Amazon.com Inc. for use in Amazon's newly released eBook, which is called Kindle.
According to a Globe story from March, Cambridge-based E Ink holds more than 100 patents on its "electrophoretic" ink technology - which literally means "the movement of particles by an electrical field." Electric charges sent along a grid embedded in the paper cause tiny black and white particles to move up and down, creating text and images.
Seattle-based Amazon's website notes that Kindle is a $399 wireless reading device. The description makes it sound somewhat similar to Apple Inc.'s iPod music player. Kindle users can go to Kindle store and choose among more than 88,000 book titles, many of which sell for about $10, Amazon said.
"Buy a book, and it is auto-delivered wirelessly in less than one minute," Amazon.com says on its website.
(By Chris Reidy, Globe staff)
