The future of E-reading
In June, E-Ink became my favorite company to talk about. Once it said it was selling itself to its largest customer, I started asking people in the venture capital and finance worlds why they thought it had done this. After all, it makes the technology that makes the Kindle hot, and practically every other e-reader on the planet. And lesser startups have gone public since that deal was announced. Plus, it’s growing like crazy and has throughout the downturn. A successful company had to sell out instead of cash in. What a metaphor for modern American entrepeneurialism.
I was happy when the Boston Globe Magazine accepted my suggestion to write about it. This story, Electric Dreams, was the result. There wasn’t room to look at why modern innovation creates so few jobs. We’ll save that for another day.