E-Paper and its Disadvantages for Organizations

Like all technologies, E-paper has its flaws that make it inaccurate to use. Organizations face many disadvantages with e-paper and e-paper technologies. Publishing departments may have a bad time adapting to this new technology because it is still complex to use. Organizations still have manufacturing costs that “were higher than expected, and some companies had trouble programming signs in their stores” (Farrel). Hence, companies are still reluctant to use this technology because it is more complex than paper and it is more expensive to use. Also, according to David Dejean e-paper is still less attractive to technologies such as LED or LCD, because it still unable to reproduce animations and it is difficult to read when there’s no light (Dejean). Thus, unless the room is not bright enough, employees in an organization will have a very hard time reading the e-paper. The biggest challenge a company faces with e-paper and its sister technologies is piracy. In this internet era, it is easy to send information from one side of the globe to another, thus, organizations have to be careful with their information. According to Manuel Viloria, an internet specialist, with e-paper technologies, “your file can be easily emailed to someone living thousands of miles away. It can even be placed in a public server for anyone to download” (Viloria). Hence, this could be troublesome for book publishing companies that may lose millions of dollars and for organizations that have classified information. To sum up, e-paper has many disadvantages that

References:

Farrel Maureen, Is E Ink Publishing’s Savior?, Forbes Magazine, September 15, 2008

http://www.forbes.com/entrepreneurs/forbes/2008/0915/060.html

Dejean David, The Future of E-Paper: The Kindle Is Only the Beginning,

http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxonomyName=Hardware&articleId=9091118&taxonomyId=12&pageNumber=2

Viloria, Manuel, Ebooks: Advantages and Disadvantages,

http://www.manuelviloria.com/archives/ebooks-advantages-and-disadvantages/