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Originally Posted by zerospinboson
Actually, the problem is that they haven't been reading books these last two decades, per Steve Jobs's orders. Still, if you ignore the fact that this will do nothing for book readers, it might get TV/gaming addicts to read more... perhaps?
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But, but, but ... Dvorak was quoting someone from the _publishing_ industry, ignorantly lamenting that his own industry hasn't invented a technology that already exists. Not only hasn't he been reading books, magazines, and sundry other things, but he apparently never looked on his secretary's desk to see how she handled his email and shops for his nieces' Bat Mitzvah gifts!
Was a cheap, cheesy black and white display with a few control buttons, powered by an obsolete processor, running a decades old OS and with a low speed wireless data connection a shock to his system? Amazon's genius wasn't in inventing any _thing_; it was putting them together in a novel arrangement, and finding a way to make it easy for their customers to demand to give Bezos money.
It's like Obama's Blackberry. The US government was almost brought to it's knees by the _head_ of the government wanting to keep a communications device that's as common as dirt.
Boggledly,
Jack Tingle