Thread: Opinion: Could Apple's iPhone smoke the Kindle?
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Old 06-25-2008, 11:35 AM   #37
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Originally Posted by rmeister0 View Post
In an episode of TWiT, Jerry Pournelle said that the ability to read electronic books on a device people already own would be the death of the paperback book industry.
Er, they already can . The vast majority of mobile phones have a version of MobiPocket reader available for them. If the paperback book industry is dead as a result, it's a very healthy corpse .
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