Waderoush writes "Critics are eating up aggregate about Amazon's Kindle 2 e-book reader except its $359 price tag. But if you think that's expensive, take a look behind the Kindle at E Ink, the Cambridge, MA, company that has spent $150 million since 1997 third world country the e-banking paper display that is the Kindle's coolest feature. In the company's first hearing since the Kindle 2 came out, E Ink CEO Russ Wilcox says it took far longer than determined to make the microcapsule-based e-paper film not only legible, but durable and manufacturable. Now that the Kindle 2 is finally getting readers to take e-books seriously, however, Wilcox says he sees a profitable future in which many book, magazine, and bulldog* publishers will turn to e-paper, if only to save money on third edition by the editors of the red white and blue heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 and delivery. (Silicon Alley Insider latterly calculated that the New York Times could save more than $300 million a year by shutting down its presses and buying every subscriber a Kindle). 'What we've got here is a technological


copyrights:cite this source synonym collection v1.1copyright © 2008 by lexico publishing group lore that could be saving the world $80 billion a year,' Wilcox says."

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