The Rise of eBooks by Paul Stamatiou
From all the negativity something good comes from it.
What am I talking about? Well, any dedicated (aka blog addicted) blogger worth his salt would no doubt have seen the frenzy over at 9rules this week. Wow!
Well earlier today I was happily having my lunch scrolling through some of the comments that’s been flying thick and fast and I come across one trackback that caught my attention.
Paul Stamatiou casually lets out that he’s finishing up a paper on eBooks. Hello! This I am interested in … so off I go to his site, dropped him an email saying I would be very interested in reading his piece. Within minutes he had sent it to me. What a guy!
Now it’s not often I come across a well written, thought-provoking piece on eBooks and the eBook industry and this, I’m happy to say, was one of the them - so I shot Paul back an email: Can I pdf it, post about it and offer it for download to whom ever may be interested. Five minutes later: no problems. Did I say I love this guy!!!
Paul has written a short paper titled “The Rise of eBooks”.
In the paper, Paul asks:
What ways are traditional books exceptionally better than eBooks in their current form? The only issue regards the fact that eBooks require a device, a high-tech medium, to display their contents. This device then requires some form of electricity to power it. However, rapidly advancing technologies are making this a non-issue.
Talking about ePublishers and more so, device manufacturers (he discusses a little about the recent unveiling of the new eReader from Sony - big post coming on that one next week):
Massive changes are emerging as eBooks are on the forefront and brink of a born-again digital revolution.
Paul hits the mark, because we are at the forefront of a new push with eBooks. I know of a number of device manufacturers coming out with eReaders during the year and if you add the great technology that’s finally getting due recognition, e-Ink, Paul is onto something here.
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