Even John Dvorak admits it now: E-readers are here to stay. Read , and move on to the important but unanswered questions:
Who will be the E-reader of the future ? Tablets or iPad-likes ? are kindle and nook just temporary phenomenas, until tablets will reach the needed maturity ? or will the 1-month battery and easy-on-the-eyes display clear advantages will mean E-readers, as a uniquely-targeted technology, are the clear winners for book-reading, which will leave tablets for the internet surfing, and raise serious doubts regarding its ability to compete with smart phones ?
Amazon, according to this article, have sold more electronic books that hard-printed books in its last quarter. This is a revolution, taking place infront of our eyes. The largest online books retailer (a revolution in intself, still taking place, as amazon is much more than just a book retailer nowadays, and is truly threatening retailers like walmart), is now primarily selling more digital books than paper-books. We live in Gutenberg-like times. Just imagine the possible implications. And people still claim that the changes of the last quarter of the 20th century were rapid and a little hard to adapt too...
We are living in interesting times.
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