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BKeeper · 11-13-2006, 07:50 PM

I completely agree. An A4 reader is a must.

A4 is the most used standard among heavy consumers of written information e.g.: lawyers doctors, scientists and people in academia.
In these areas we use a lot of short-term/ short-lived information. Documents lose value really fast and usually end up being destroyed.

Maybe one could say that ebook devices right now are not so much for readers but for printers. :-)

It's in these segments that and eReader has potential (maybe even more than for ebooks, since there is clearly no emotional attachment to the classic and much loved pbook, which is to say that a pbook nowadays has somehow an inherent value. As we all know, sometimes that value can itself be a barrier for mass ebook success.

11-13-2006, 07:50 PM	#17
BKeeper Groupie Posts: 186 Karma: 728 Join Date: Jul 2006 Device: Kindle PW	The convenience of an A4 device I completely agree. An A4 reader is a must. A4 is the most used standard among heavy consumers of written information e.g.: lawyers doctors, scientists and people in academia. In these areas we use a lot of short-term/ short-lived information. Documents lose value really fast and usually end up being destroyed. Maybe one could say that ebook devices right now are not so much for readers but for printers. :-) It's in these segments that and eReader has potential (maybe even more than for ebooks, since there is clearly no emotional attachment to the classic and much loved pbook, which is to say that a pbook nowadays has somehow an inherent value. As we all know, sometimes that value can itself be a barrier for mass ebook success.