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Book Market Enters Era of Ubiquity

oops....forgot a query: who thinks a P2P market/"file sharing"/download circuit will appear (or are the downloaded kindle2 "books" completely copy protected?).

Book Market Enters Era of Ubiquity

i had one in my hand this weekend and used to read books (hard copy) for a living as a critic. something about the technology, cute and clever as it is, distracts, though it sure beats lugging around a really heavy tome, which for my old hands get harder and harder to handle. agree there's an I-phone gee-whiz attraction but i felt no compelling need to switch (esp. at that price). maybe i'm spoiled: i used to get review copies gratis. i think it'll be a novelty and maybe a status symbol but won't displace hard copy books. as to its green-ness--looks like a helluva lot of petrochemical feedstock and electrical nasties go into its creation. like ethanol from corn...

newspapers aren't going obsolete because of form but because they're full of mis- or disinformation and can;t afford their traditional mission--being there, ferreting out the truth and telling it in print.