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Digital Readers
November 19th, 2009
When I worked for an online education company, I was quick to tell people that we also shipped books because at the time a 100% online curriculum had a slightly negative perception in the market. Most of my company’s curriculum relied on book-based learning. Books provided a certain immediacy, flexibility and ease of use that a Web page did not have. The idea was that the online portion would complement the offline version. The online learning could offer things that the paper version could not.
I am wondering if this is all about to change with the advent of the digital readers?
Digital readers have been available for a while, but they are about to hit a “tipping point” as multiple vendors will now be launching new, improved readers. The amount of content available has also been slowly increasing over the years as the technology has been improving. There will be readers that are as physically flexible as paper, have color, allow you to annotate text, have text read to you, have the ability to share books and will also run Microsoft Word applications. Barnes & Noble, Apple, Sony, and Amazon are about to all compete in this arena with other smaller companies. Will this be the new model for mobile computers and also books?
John Moffitt
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Here is another interesting article on the origins and evolution of e-ink