The plastic display is not foldable or rollable but can bend up to 40 degrees. The display has a maximum resolution of 1024 x 768 and is, according to LG, highly durable.
The 6-inch display is comparable in size to the display in Amazon's Kindle ereader but it's roughly a third thinner and, because it's plastic rather than glass, it weighs half as much. Current e-readers have to be built to protect the easily damaged glass display but an e-reader using LG's display could be lighter.
Sang Duck Yeo, head of operations for LG Display's mobile/OLED division, said the display was "a product we believe will help greatly popularise the ebook market".
Amazon last week confirmed that the Kindle Touch, its most advanced e-ink Kindle would launch in Britain at the end of April. The company has sold millions of its Kindle ereaders, in various models, and announced at the end of last year that it had sold four million Kindles in the US in the run-up to Christmas.
However, the possibilities for LG's EPD (e-paper display) go beyond ereaders. Because of their flexibility and long battery life, the screens could be used for advertising or for in-store displays in areas where a normal screen is not practical.
