I can remember sitting in a presentation hosted by local Macintosh dealers 12 years ago, at which we watched a video depicting future uses of computers in our daily lives. One image that stayed with me over these many years is that of a man sitting on a park bench who appears to be reading a book. The book, in fact, is a computer, and he is interacting with it, highlighting sections, getting definitions and pronunciations for words and so forth. It was demonstrating the personal computer's future purposes in literacy training and electronic publishing, and the interactivity of both.
Just look at the ads we saw over Christmas for products like Leap Frog for children. It is very close to the kind of technology I witnessed in this video 12 years ago. E-publishing and on-line reading is a growing business, and will continue to gain momentum. Perhaps we won't see the rapid spikes in growth that we did in the dot-com fad of the late 90's, but that's fine. Slow and steady growth makes for longer-term success.
Once again, hats off for another insightful article.
Submitted by psimoneau on Fri, 03/08/2002 - 05:18.
E-books are just a new form of media. I prefer a paperback edition of most of the books I read (usually computer books) because I like to highlight the text and write notes in it. But, just as some people prefer the evening news on the television, where others prefer the newspaper, it just depends on your own style and the purpose you purchased the book for. As a college student, it would have been great if I could have purchased my textbooks at a much reduced price as well as weighing way less than a hardback edition of a textbook. Also updates of textbooks would happen much sooner. I just hope the prices don't go up on either media too much. Anyway, wanted to let you know that your book is available in paperback from www.powells.com for $7.95. They are located here in Portland, Oregon and are the largest reseller of used books on the west coast. I have purchased from them online myself as they have a database accessing all of their stores and the shipping was pretty reasonable. Thanks for your informative articles!
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I can remember sitting in a presentation hosted by local Macintosh dealers 12 years ago, at which we watched a video depicting future uses of computers in our daily lives. One image that stayed with me over these many years is that of a man sitting on a park bench who appears to be reading a book. The book, in fact, is a computer, and he is interacting with it, highlighting sections, getting definitions and pronunciations for words and so forth. It was demonstrating the personal computer's future purposes in literacy training and electronic publishing, and the interactivity of both.
Just look at the ads we saw over Christmas for products like Leap Frog for children. It is very close to the kind of technology I witnessed in this video 12 years ago. E-publishing and on-line reading is a growing business, and will continue to gain momentum. Perhaps we won't see the rapid spikes in growth that we did in the dot-com fad of the late 90's, but that's fine. Slow and steady growth makes for longer-term success.
Once again, hats off for another insightful article.
E-books are just a new form of media.
E-books are just a new form of media. I prefer a paperback edition of most of the books I read (usually computer books) because I like to highlight the text and write notes in it. But, just as some people prefer the evening news on the television, where others prefer the newspaper, it just depends on your own style and the purpose you purchased the book for. As a college student, it would have been great if I could have purchased my textbooks at a much reduced price as well as weighing way less than a hardback edition of a textbook. Also updates of textbooks would happen much sooner. I just hope the prices don't go up on either media too much. Anyway, wanted to let you know that your book is available in paperback from www.powells.com for $7.95. They are located here in Portland, Oregon and are the largest reseller of used books on the west coast. I have purchased from them online myself as they have a database accessing all of their stores and the shipping was pretty reasonable. Thanks for your informative articles!