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- DocSavage 19y agoA key driver to e-music's growth has been the availability of slick portable devices. E-books, in contrast, have no decent rendering device and have to contend with a wonderful physical alternative, the book. (Sorry, PDA screens don't cut it.) Now imagine an Apple iBook -- polished exterior, hundreds of e-paper sheets that can dynamically update to your current book selection, autosyncing with iTunes -- and what that would do to the e-book market. Would you migrate some portion of your physical library to an e-library? Would you start to explore the long tail of fiction outside the traditional publishing venues? Do you think there is a fundamental difference between books and music, say length, required concentration, or home decoration?
- comatose_kid 19y agoActually, Sony has a pretty neat e-paper ebook reader. See - http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/reader/ http://www.learningcenter.sony.us/assets/itpd/reader/ I played around with one and it seemed to be pretty easy on the eyes. I would port all of my physical library to an e-library. The convenience of such an idealized device would probably obsolete the book.