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Matthew writes: Sony Corporation has announced a major breakthrough in reducing the cost of information distribution and long- term information storage.

Based on Sony’s optical high-density optical storage platform, the new technology involves the storage of information using a specific system of printed marks on fibrous pulped wood.

“This new technology will be a dramatic enabler in the sciences, arts, and in government. Imagine being able to store information on a medium so inexpensive that it could be easily reproduced and widely distributed. The ability to permanently retain volumes of information for indefinite periods also has uses in the education and business markets.”

According to Sony, individual “pages” of information can be bound together into “volumes” which in sum can contain nearly any amount of information. Sony is currently exploring the potential market for selling pre-printed volumes of information directly to consumers.