Thread: Will 2009 be the Year of the E-book?
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Old 03-19-2009, 05:18 PM   #21
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
As of right now, there is NO reader that is good enough for textbooks. So that won't happen for a long long time to come. I don't think it will happen in 2009.
Well, maybe not a long time, but it still will take a while, yes. Schools will lower the price a lot. 9.7 screens should make it, maybe also B/W could be enough.

If I do not recollect badly, the great switch between the cathode ray TV and LCD TV, it was California laws which basically prohibited Cathode ray TV and pushed LCD screen production prices to what it is today (and it still is going lower). So if states legislations were to push it ....
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