Mark Chillingworth wrote
this article about e-books for ITWeek.
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Originally Posted by ITWeek
MP3 players arrived on the music scene back in 1997, but it wasn’t until the arrival of the now ubiquitous iPod from Apple that MP3 began to take over from the CD. Likewise, e-books and e-book readers have been under discussion for some time, but in the last 12 months the arrival of new screen technology and attractive devices could do for books what the iPod has done for music.
For the information industry, the question is whether e-books will capture the attention of users in the way the internet has done over the past decade and whether information providers, professionals and departments should be planning to support another new format.
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