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Old 05-11-2006, 06:31 AM   #1
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Next Sony Reader in color and with moving pictures

The Telegraph has a concise summary of current trends and challenges in the e-publishing industry. Summing it up:
  • Sony faces competition from iRex
  • Some argue that e-books fall short when compared to the sensory pleasures of a hardback ("velvety feel of their gently flickering pages beneath your fingertips")
  • Revolution in publishing could turn upcoming readers into "iPods for book-lovers"
  • Sony Reader is a "physical let-down" when compared to real paper
  • Color, moving images, annotations will come in the next development, says Sony
  • High price of the reader, plus the price of buying e-books, and DRM restrictions could lead e-publishing into another flop
  • Mobile phones used successfully in Japan to market electronic manga literature
  • Tachistoscopic reading: single words are flashed at a time which is supposed to improve human memory (I tried that once on my PDA and it gave me a splitting headache).
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