On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 11:06:28AM -0400, John Sessoms scripsit:
> I think I'll stick with my old, beat up, dog eared paperbacks.
They get heavy.
E-paper, especially if they can get the refresh time down, is entirely
good enough as a reading surface, and having the one comms terminal to
read stuff on that happens to have an entire searchable ("you can't grep
dead goats") reference library *and* a couple hundred stuck-in-airports
books on it is very convenient.
There are even attractive things about not having to cut down trees to
publish a book. But hardly anyone currently in the book business is
seeing this as an opportunity rather than a problem. (Amazon sees it as
an opportunity to lock in an entire new sales channel, so that it will
be theirs forever.)
-- Graydon
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