Thread: Cory Doctorow: "Hardware ebook readers are a dead end"
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Old 12-20-2022, 10:38 AM   #163
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I'm not actually going on this, based upon MR's contingent alone. I
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I'll stick with eInks 1, Doctorow 0.

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It will soon be 18 years since the first eink came out.
Companies are stiil producing better ones and there is choice of size and if stylus or not. They were only about 3 years old (Amazon 1 yo) when Doctorow rubbished the ideas of dedicated ereaders and ebooks.
SF writers and Futurists are usually worse than Fortune Tellers at the future (The successful Fortune Tellers cheat).
SF is after all primarily entertainment.
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