Thread: E-Books vs. Dead-Tree Books: An Alternate Dialogue
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Old 03-01-2008, 01:19 AM   #52
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In many cases, I've discovered that the turning point tends to be the obvious one: Money. When a new system earns the company more profit... when it allows them to the same job at lower cost... when it significantly cuts internal expenses...
Where I've worked the printers have been treated the same as air conditioning and electricity - something that just has to be paid for. I mean that both ways - these people would no more think of turning their computer off than of proofreading a document on their screen.

There is hope though, I showed our tech writer how to rotate their monitors to 1200x1600 so they can have a full page on each one. That's cut down on paper use. I'm working on getting QA to email us fault reports instead of printing screenshots.

eNotebooks that we can write on are the next step, I think. I already have friends addicted to Crackberry, I'm sure that once they can scrawl into them instead of micro-typing they'll do that.
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