Digital Esquire Cover Full of Flashing Lights, None of Them Green

You may have heard that Esquire‘s next issue will feature an “electronic” cover; something called EInk will allow the cover to flash on newsstands like a billboard, though only for ninety days. According to Esquire editor David Granger the cover is “a 21st-century technology with a 19th-century manufacturing process.” However the environmental implications may be entirely 19th century.