This is a first attempt I’ve ever seen to make a map out of the e-book universe. At a first glance it looks complicated – and it’s the best way to describe what are e-books right now. They’re not niche any more. They break into mainstream. They lure big names.
Sure, there are weak pointe here. I’m missing content providers, for example. You can find many more. On the other hand it would be too complicated to put everything into a single map. And we have to realize, that in a couple of months it will be even more complex. Too complex to vizualize it.
So look at this carefully. Study it. Take your time. This is a first and maybe the last map of e-book world you look at.
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How come everything just boils down to the iPhone? ;-)
To cut it short, one of the biggest advantages e-books can benefit from is the intimacy of hand-held devices. This brings literature and generally written word closer than ever to human beings. It's quite burdensome to drag books with you (at least a couple of them) and have them ready for reading at a shake of your hand.., isn't it? But smartphones and especially the iPhone with its revolutionary multi-touch screen do this job perfectly. The only constraint is battery life.
But literature is perpetuum mobile, so no battery life is ever going to stop it :)
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"Literature is perpetum mobile" – it sounds like my mission:-)
iPhone has already changed the way we read and the way we think about reading. It's more like reading for the future instead of reading to the past (which paper book is about).
Apple's tablet will make it even cooler, and this excitement about "will I finish before the battery is dead" makes me think of a special kind of short stories – "battery life fiction";-)
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"Literature is perpetuum mobile" – it sounds like my mission:-)
iPhone has already changed the way we read and the way we think about reading. It's more like reading for the future instead of reading to the past (which paper book is about).
Apple's tablet will make it even cooler, and this excitement about "will I finish before the battery is dead" makes me think of a special kind of short stories – "battery life fiction";-)
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