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Interesting. It's great to hear e-books are getting attention with the sci-fi presenters. SciFi has always been a top genre for e-books fans. I hope to see e-books become wildly successful with
I think the DRM issue will hit harder after people have invested in e-books and discover the problems. Just like music DRM was seemingly successful for a while until consumers got more educated. But the key leaders in the field will probably determine which way the industry goes. I really believe it could end up either onerous or very consumer oriented. We'll see.
I'm personally interested to see the influence of e-books and iPhone and netbooks on SciFi stories. I don't read a lot of SciFi anymore (other than many of Steve Jordan's books of course!), but there seems to only be sporadic influences in stories. It would be cool to see e-documents or even other forms of e-information show up in descriptions of future worlds.
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