And if you follow technology, you'd know that the next time Dvorak is right about something it will probably be the first time.
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A big publisher was lamenting the lame quality of electronic books, or e-books. He couldn't figure out why people would want to read a book on an e-book reader as though it were a printed book. I asked him about this after the speech.
Essentially, he said that if you had a new platform for books, you'd think the book itself would change to take advantage of the platform. By this, he meant that the definition of a book should be updated for these devices. Why couldn't pictures be animated? Why couldn't you listen to the speeches in a history book—the actual speeches? Why couldn't an index be hot, so when you looked something up, you could jump to it with a simple touch?
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I think this is what the wonderfully misnamed Vook is aiming for...and I also think the release of the iTunes LP format is a preliminary look at a container for such data.
I chuckle every-time I think about what Jobs must have done the first time he used a Kindle -- hurled into into a wall with a stream of obscenities.
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The idea of a touchscreen, full-color e-book reader combined with a device that can run those 80,000 iPhone apps as well as easily browse the Internet does have appeal.
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http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2353802,00.asp