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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
(Suppose a card held a book, and could be read on a device it was inserted into, but not copied? Even publishers could get behind that, because it would prevent most copy-theft. That's something that could catch on.)
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I think immediately of the little, colorful blocks from the original Star Trek series. The consumer market is still adjusting to the concept of intangible content. Giving them something to put on the shelf would probably speed adoption.
It's a shame you can't turn out cheap RFIDs with a 1MB capacity. That would handle most e-books. You could stock them and print them like Starbuck's gift cards--cover art on the front, "other titles by..." on the back. Slip the little puppy into a clear sleeve on the back of the reader (so other people can see what you're reading) and off you go. No new storage standard. No new interface. Put minimal storage on the device, maybe just enough to cache the text between RFID pings.