Julian May in her Galactic Milieu series. And mostly from the eyes of a book seller too.
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Originally Posted by from Intervention
"Mf!" said Shelby. My mention of the great innovation in communication struck a sour note with the publisher. The programmable liquid-crystal reader-plaques had already spelled the doom of printed periodicals and paperback ephemera; and the newer large-format plaques with improved color-imaging that had just come out of China were bound to take a nasty bite out of conventional book publication.
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Originally Posted by from Jack the Bodiless
Marc made his way through the close-standing shelves of old-fashioned paged books - fantasy titles, science fiction, and horror novels - that were the stock-in-trade of his great-granduncle. The business catered exclusively to collectors, selling mostly by mail order. The only modern liquid-crystal plaque-books in The Eloquent Page were reference volumes or scholarly studies of the good old stuff.
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So, no e-ink, but LCD, and not downloads, but physical products
