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The Future of E-Books

Today's Wall Street Journal has a neat article:

April 20, 2009
How the E-Book Will Change the Way We Read and Write
Author Steven Johnson outlines a future with more books, more distractions -- and the end of reading alone

It's another interesting discussion piece. With Google having signed up 40,000 current publishers world wide for it's site, I think we're looking at major dramatic change in the book space in short order. Book retailers, e-tailers like Amazon, libraries and educational institutions will need to be quite nimble to keep up. Just ask the newspaper folks what's needed in hindsight!

A good start is for every library to have an Amazon Kindle and a Sony Reader for everyone (including users) to play with. That's what informed decision making looks like - play first, then decide.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on April 20, 2009 (boomark / email).