We’re familiar with Kindle and the other new media readers, but now plastic is getting even closer to paper. Check out these videos on the future of paper. Thank you YouTube. Don’t miss the last one in this posting.

Here’s CNET.com’s take on the Kindle

This is a prototype from PlasticLogic:

More from PlasticLogic:

A report from New Tang Dynasty TV on the green aspects of this new technology that is wildly popular in Japan:

Video on paper — this is from Sony:

This is Readius from Polymer Vision:

From the Human Media Lab at Queen’s University in Canada:

Who thought that paper could be made from digits?

The situation seems to be that writers no longer have a problem reaching an audience. And the audience has so many new options other than books. Which means that the publishers, and their chosen authors, aren’t making as much money these days. 

Then there’s Magnus Berger, a graphic designer at Baron & Baron, who is publishing ‘The Last Magazine.’ Funny how the website and blog came first. But then the magazine does need to acquire an audience. It’s to arrive somewhere, biannually.

Fabien Baron is a very talented designer, who gained fame for his magazine design. There is only one Baron. However, some call the firm Baron & Baron & Baron & Baron & Baron & Baron.

Amazon’s digital reading device Kindle is finally back on their warehouse shelves. 

The New York Times

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos dedicated his most recent shareholder letter to explaining his cultural ambitions for the Kindle. Laptops, BlackBerrys and mobile phones have “shifted us more toward information snacking, and I would argue toward shorter attention spans.” He hopes that “Kindle and its successors may gradually and incrementally move us over years into a world with longer spans of attention, providing a counterbalance to the recent proliferation of info-snacking tools.”

“Print Is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age” – published in hardcover last November, and now available for the Kindle – author Jeff Gomez.