Comments on: iRex’s $399 reader to go on sale by next month at hundreds of Best Buy stores http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/irexs-399-reader-to-go-on-sale-by-next-month-at-hundreds-of-best-buy-stores/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:56:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Mark Sigal http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/irexs-399-reader-to-go-on-sale-by-next-month-at-hundreds-of-best-buy-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1145529 Mark Sigal Wed, 23 Sep 2009 19:01:25 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/09/23/irexs-399-reader-to-go-on-sale-by-next-month-at-hundreds-of-best-buy-stores/#comment-1145529 This stuff is interesting, but my thesis is that whereas Kindle and iRex seem to be predicated on the construct of the book as less than the current experience (i.e., mostly text), the industry is headed for a full-blown re-boot that takes advantage of interactivity, touch/tilt, social engagement, movies, pictures, animation and sound, a topic that I expound upon in: Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time) http://bit.ly/zOoEu Check it out, if interested. Mark This stuff is interesting, but my thesis is that whereas Kindle and iRex seem to be predicated on the construct of the book as less than the current experience (i.e., mostly text), the industry is headed for a full-blown re-boot that takes advantage of interactivity, touch/tilt, social engagement, movies, pictures, animation and sound, a topic that I expound upon in:

Rebooting the Book (One Apple iPad Tablet at a Time)
http://bit.ly/zOoEu

Check it out, if interested.

Mark

]]> By: LC http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/irexs-399-reader-to-go-on-sale-by-next-month-at-hundreds-of-best-buy-stores/comment-page-1/#comment-1145515 LC Wed, 23 Sep 2009 14:35:29 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/09/23/irexs-399-reader-to-go-on-sale-by-next-month-at-hundreds-of-best-buy-stores/#comment-1145515 IREX has a photo of it here: http://www.irexreader.com/ IREX has a photo of it here:

http://www.irexreader.com/

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