|
yvan said:
> First of all, this is Mobile Read.
> Everybody here reads.
> We are hard core.
yes, but you're not typical.
as i'm quite sure you know.
quite simply, you don't have the
numbers to ignite a revolution...
and that is the major reason why
pournelle wasn't talking about you.
he's talking about the people who
_are_not_ "hard core readers"...
people who would never even _carry_
-- let alone buy -- a dedicated machine.
but _might_ -- might! -- read a book
on a machine they're already carrying.
(or at least might _buy_ one, thinking
that they'll read it, even if they don't.)
this thread is not a general debate.
it is a thread about what jerry said...
he said he thought that the iphone
-- a device which millions of people
will indeed be carrying regularly,
and on which books can be read --
will help bring the long-discussed
e-book revolution into our reality...
like many others, i think the _web_
was the _real_ "e-book revolution"
-- or, to put it a bit more accurately,
the "digital text from individual people
attaining a global reach via cyberspace
causing a communication revolution" --
but for those people who define "books"
as "the producs from major publishers"
i think pournelle's analysis is spot-on...
of course, it doesn't hurt that those
major publishers have shot themselves
in the foot with their business model,
and now have nowhere else to turn
_except_ to the electronic-world, but
that's kind of beside the point, right?
> what's the reason for your formating?
self-expression.
> Do you have something against upper case?
yes. it's ugly.
> Or are you writing on a phone?
no, i need a big-ass keyboard to write...
-bowerbird
|