Comments on: The future of reading: A tantalizing preview from France http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/now-this-youve-got-to-see-the-future-of-reading/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 03:55:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/now-this-youve-got-to-see-the-future-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1145486 Michael Pastore Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:08:10 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29153#comment-1145486 The commentary and screen shots by Mike Cane are A++. We saw that the ebook prices are the same as the paperback, but we don't know if those prices are high, low, or somewhere in between. There was an article recently (in the NY Times ?) about using electronic devices (laptops, netbooks, iPhones, etc.) on the beach: it's not a good match, dangerous for the hardware. But apparently, these futuristic devices are impervious to sand and seawater. When they say "read anywhere" they mean it. Michael Pastore 50 Benefits of Ebooks The commentary and screen shots by Mike Cane are A++.

We saw that the ebook prices are the same as the paperback, but we don’t know if those prices are high, low, or somewhere in between.

There was an article recently (in the NY Times ?) about using electronic devices (laptops, netbooks, iPhones, etc.) on the beach: it’s not a good match, dangerous for the hardware. But apparently, these futuristic devices are impervious to sand and seawater. When they say “read anywhere” they mean it.

Michael Pastore
50 Benefits of Ebooks

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/now-this-youve-got-to-see-the-future-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1145483 Mike Cane Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:36:42 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29153#comment-1145483 And I screensnapped the hell out of it earlier: http://ebooktest.blogspot.com/2009/07/part-of-ebook-vision.html And I screensnapped the hell out of it earlier:
http://ebooktest.blogspot.com/2009/07/part-of-ebook-vision.html

]]> By: Michael Pastore http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/now-this-youve-got-to-see-the-future-of-reading/comment-page-1/#comment-1145465 Michael Pastore Tue, 22 Sep 2009 13:08:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=29153#comment-1145465 This new version of the video contains subtitles in English. Merci! In this possible future, print books and ebooks co-exist in a symbiotic harmony. Ebooks have not replaced print books, nor have they eliminated workers in the publishing industry. The bookstore has not vanished, it plays a new role, as a kind of museum and library where buyers can view the books they want, discuss books with a knowledgeable bookstore owner, and then choose either the print version -- in any language -- or the electronic. Michael Pastor 50 Benefits of Ebooks This new version of the video contains subtitles in English. Merci!

In this possible future, print books and ebooks co-exist in a symbiotic harmony. Ebooks have not replaced print books, nor have they eliminated workers in the publishing industry. The bookstore has not vanished, it plays a new role, as a kind of museum and library where buyers can view the books they want, discuss books with a knowledgeable bookstore owner, and then choose either the print version — in any language — or the electronic.

Michael Pastor
50 Benefits of Ebooks

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