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[james_davis_nicoll]

Shorter John Siracusa: e-books' coming domination of publishing is inevitable, do you hear me? Inevitable!

Nicked from Charles Stross, who pretty much would have to be more positive about e-books than I am.

Comments

[wintermuted.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure they'll make what I'd want.

Length and width of a hardback, opens up like a book, reads like a book. No tiny little screen nohow. No asshattery about what formats it'll take or anything like drm. Doubles as a mini-laptop with one "page" a touchscreen keyboard, the other the screen, also as a tablet computer for handwritten notes.

And you know, I'd like some eye-appeal too. Books are beautiful. Would be nice if the e-book was too. Beige plastic won't cut it.

[penguin2.livejournal.com]

Give it five years. And be told fer shure that the ever-growing steampunk vogue will give us palaeobibliophiles exactly what we want, right down to leather bindings with brass corner trim. Bring on the Diamond Age, sez I.

[wintermuted.livejournal.com]

So, let it be written. So, let it be done!