Thread: Cory Doctorow: "Hardware ebook readers are a dead end"
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Old 03-05-2008, 03:37 PM   #33
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan View Post
True... but I see a market that hasn't been tapped yet, that of online e-magazines, as being a potential "killer app" for hardware readers.
I'm currently subscribed to a few magazines on www.exacteditions.com (Velovision in particular) but currently they have to be read on my computer at home because the portable hardware is just not up to it (you really need a 1200x1600 full colour screen). I'm sure that will come, and in the meantime Tor is doing a reasonable impersonation of a science fiction magazine.

What's interesting with the magazine is that the publisher of Velovision has added a small step to the proofing stage that generates the electronic version largely automatically. From his point of view it's not a big marginal cost but there is considerable marginal profit. I think we're both happy
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