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| Time: 09:05 EST/14:05 GMT | News Source: MSNBC | Posted By: Robert Stein | ||
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NEW YORK PUBLISHERS gathered last week at a Manhattan conference organized by the Open e-Book Forum and sponsored by Microsoft to showcase their Tablet PC. The Tablet PC is their new computer, sans keyboard, that is shaped more like an 8 1/2 x 11 inch paper notepad than the traditional laptop—and hence a more natural electronic platform for books and magazines. I tend to be cautious about Microsoft-dominated conferences that portend new media breakthroughs. My first such experience was back in 1986, when Bill Gates invited a bunch of publishers to Seattle to convince us that CD-ROMs were “the new papyrus,” primed to revolutionize our business, and we believed him. Unfortunately, over the next decade, for media companies CD-ROMs primarily turned out to be a way to lose many millions of dollars. | ||
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| #1 By 6859 (204.71.100.217) at 12/11/2002 10:49:11 AM |
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As long as E-books are copyable, it will never be a viable alternative for traditional publishing houses who like controlling their product. Photocopying The Lord of the Rings, for instance would take quite a while, and the cost being what it is, it's cheaper to just buy it at Barnes and Noble (or another store of such ilk.) But a PDF (or other method of "eletronifying" the text) of it is easily transferred. Copy protection isn't that great yet.
And besides, remember that whole "paperless office" paradigm? Yeah, like that's happened yet. I get more paperwork now in addition to the emails, faxes, and that crap. Paperless office? I wish! |
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