The invention relates to a method for editing electronic paper. In the method, the editing operations are carried out on the electronic paper, such as read-in, clear, and the like, by utilizing a touch control pen; the touch control pen is provided with a switch device, and a lead wire is led out from one end of the touch control pen and connected to the electronic paper. When the touch control pen touches the electronic paper, the touch control pen carries out corresponding editing operations, such as read-in, clear, and the like, by utilizing interactions among electric charges. The invention has simple steps and realizes editing actions of arbitrary writing or erasing and the like on the electronic paper, thereby facilitating reading, and realizing the editing actions of read-in, clear, and the like.