France Télécom is not the first company to experiment with electronic "paper" versions of newspapers.
The full playbook is available, in color, eliminating the need for paper versions.
Gemstar is also releasing some e-books in advance of the paper versions.
But in recent years, they've also begun burning paper versions of mobile phones -- and even paper versions of prepaid phone cards, to make sure the phones will work beyond the grave.
The brass sheets were also used to stencil black-and-white paper versions activated by graphic and gestural additions (Johnson).
Amazon has begun to raise the price of certain e-books over that of their paper versions.
The inventors, from Balmain, Australia, say their device can create paper versions of any documents sent to a cellphone.
Even Mr. Bezos said he does not expect electronic books to replace bound paper versions anytime soon.
A recent study by JStor showed that students used the online service almost 20 times as much as they dug into the stacks for the paper versions.
Children and adults piece together puzzles that mimic designs on an intricate Navajo blanket or color their own paper versions of a flashy headdress.
But Daniel W. VanArsdale, a folklorist who maintains an archive of paper chain letters (www.silcom.com/barnowl/chain-letter/archive/!information.htm), thinks it migrated online from older, paper versions.
