The October issue of Esquire will feature the world's first digital magazine cover. That means moving, changing images on a paper magazine cover, and it just might change everything.
It runs on a tiny battery that lasts about 90 days. I've heard the magazine will cost $7, with a lot of the cost having been underwritten by Ford Motor Co. Esquire hasn't said exactly what this is going to look like, or whether we're talking words, pictures or both. I'm imagining the digital-print equivalent of Pong.
But still. Can you picture a day in the not-too-distant future when a newsstand will basically be about a hundred TV screens with moving pictures? Or when newspaper pages will be updated via a satellite beam before readers' eyes?
Tons of trade articles on this. Here's a Google search page that will give you a bunch.
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