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BOOKS: ELECTRONIC: MARKETING RETAIL SALES ELECTRONIC COMMERCE :

SELLING SALES AND PURCHASING:

Word for Word: Is the End Nigh for the E-Book?

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Word for Word: Is the End Nigh for the E-Book?

Despite the best efforts of the digerati, book buyers still love the 
original Gutenbergian model

Bert Wright

Saturday, July 5, 2014, 01:00

Irish Times

http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/ 
word-for-word-is-the-end-nigh-for-the-e-book-1.1853949

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A shorter URL for the above link:

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http://tinyurl.com/k636oym

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Typically, new technologies describe an emotional arc from excitement, 
through to euphoria, and often on to anxiety and decline. As of now, 
ebooks have just left euphoria and are caught halfway between anxiety and 
decline and if nothing changes they may soon go the way of Betamax, Bebo 
and the Sinclair C5. Already, we hear the grinding of gears, the anguished 
cries as the drivers panic about the transmission of a killer app in 
identity crisis.

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Proponents plead that we must get beyond replication and stop pouring the 
same old content into digital containers. Like Guinness, ebooks must, in 
future, be made of more. What then is the more they have in mind? Inert 
text perched on a plastic wafer was always a waste of digitals 
capabilities, so the temptation will be to reproduce the linking and 
clicking that governs our web-reading habits.

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And, because anyone can publish now, perhaps 
the clearest beneficiaries are wannabe writers rather than readers.
Readers are being asked to swallow the line that replica ebooks were a 
false start but hey, wait till you see the spiffy second wave. The ebook 
is a format in search of a function, and so far nobody has quite got the 
hang of what that is.

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The complete article may be read at the URL above.

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Sincerely,
David Dillard
Temple University
(215) 204 - 4584
jwne-o/[email protected]
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