The Hearst Corporation, in the U.S. with magazines such as Cosmopolitan, Esquire, or the teen-sheet Seventeen of the largest publishers. As a result of the crisis they tried to print new sales routes and has now apparently in the form of a new e-readers looking for. The display of LG and E-Ink is said to be flexible.

The “Skiff Reader” is produced for Hearst by eponymous company Skiff, formerly First Paper, and will be presented to the public at DERC. In addition to its robustness, he particularly impressed by its size and resolution: The 11.5 inches wide e-paper display to a resolution of 1200 times 1600 pixels, who represent UXGA. For the presentation of content is, as including the Amazon Kindle or Sony Reader known e-ink technology used to print the book offers a very similar typeface and only in changing the content displayed consumes power. Unlike today, customary, the E-Ink display, however, be mounted on a flexible metal foil and sealed shall be based on a further development of the technology is no longer a rigid glass surface.

3G on board, open to its own content
Books or other content relating Skiff reader in many ways: Via the built-in Wi-Fi or 3G modem can be purchased content from the support of Hearst Skiff Shop. Alternatively, it is also possible to transfer your own documents on the reader. Leafing through the files or pages of a book takes place via finger.

With a single battery charge, the Skiff will make readers run for several days, indicate the manufacturer, however, did not make so far. Critical to the battery life will also be the frequency of use of Wi-Fi or 3G. In the U.S., the reader will work exclusively in the 3G network of the mobile service provider Sprint.

An exact price for the device will be released until after, or skiff at CES, though it has already announced that the device will come in the first half of 2010 into the trade.