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Originally Posted by rlauzon
I just don't see how this solves anything other than reselling/giving away/trading eBooks. I certainly don't see how this will permit me to read an eBook 10 years from now.
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Really it’s only the interface that has to stay the same. As a discrete device and as a practical limit, flash based cards WILL NOT get any smaller. And if we’re talking one book per card, transfer rates won’t matter much either. That’s not to say the cards and readers won’t evolve (video e-ink) but as the tech gets cheaper but the interface stays the same, making readers backwards compatible would be simple.
As for DRM again, yes we would end up with a license agreement like DVD’s. Why is that a problem? DVD’s are freaking successful and that’s what we want for e-books. No one is worried if they can play their DVD’s 10 years from now because we will. And none of this eliminates the possibility of future services to upgrade the tech.