Love at first sight. The iPod series made it possible for you to have portable music, photos and videos. PSP and Nintendo DS made it possible for mobile gaming (though it still sucks). What have we not ported over successfully? Books.
The next industry to protest against technology after RIAA is the publishing industry. Not that they have not made any noise so far. Check out the complains of Association of American Publishers , Association of Learned and Professional Society Publishers and Authors Guild. on Google’s Print Publishing.
The Wifi-enabled Ebook reader of the future. You download your daily newsfeed or e-Newspaper to read on the go. Your e-magazines subscriptions are sent to you via these feeds. Stock market and analysts reports are sent to you, not unlike the way you receive SMS on your mobile phone. You will check your emails on the go, and reply your mails using a touch-screen keyboard.
Your kids need not tug along a 10kg heavy bag full of textbooks when they goes to school – And he will never ever forget to bring his books. The school bookstores no longer holds a monopoly over the books. College students need not queue up at absurd long queues at their school bookstores when the semester starts.
There will be a revived interest in creating a common free textbook for use by all students, and students are no longer forced to purchase and read books whose information are outdated. Authors will shift their publishing mediums over to Ebooks. No longer will they suffer from the lack of control of the lack of marketing for their books in bookstores.
The next technology revolution: Ebook Readers.
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