rkelly wrote:Wait until an IPOD-like device comes out for books and redefines the marketplace!Hey rkelly — that's already happened, but it hasn't excactly revolutionized the industry!
From Conde Nast Treveler:
www.concierge.com/cntraveler/blogs/80days/2007/05/gear_review_son.htmlHere's a quote:
When the Sony Reader appeared on store shelves last September, it didn't make the kind of splash a lot of people expected, and in the months since it hasn't sent waves rippling through the industry. Tech reviewers were less than whelmed by the Readers feature set--no backlighting, no search, no annotation, no wireless web streaming--and they considered the price, $350, to be way too high. Literary types, on the other hand, dismissed the Reader in a rather haughtier manner. They saw it not only as a poor substitute for a book, but as a threat to the hallowed tradition of "the book," another broadside from the over-stimulated, attention-deprived, caffeinated present on the deep-thinking and ever-threatened literary tradition.Still looks pretty cool though!
Post edited by: dsendecki, at: 2007/06/07 14:09
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