e-newspaper to be launched in Britain next year

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LONDON: A British-designed electronic newspaper— made out of plastic and nolarger than a table mat — is to hit the marketnext year as an alternative to, well, paperitself, according to a report Wednesday. The new kind of newspaper has been conceived by Cambridge University scientists, who pioneered the idea of replacing silicon chips with plastic ones, and is being developed by Plastic Logic, a company based in Dresden , Germany .