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APC asks will 2010 be ‘The Year of the e-Book’?

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Writing in APC (Australian Personal Computer) David Flynn asks Will 2010 be ‘The Year of the e-Book’?. His report is based on material from tech analyst firm Gartner which says ebooks will boom next year so long as they; “overcome hurdles in price, availability and lack of popular mainstream content”.

All these points are valid, but for ebooks to begin displacing printed books, there also needs to be a great leap forward in display technology. The current crop of electronic books are tiring to read when compared with print.

Higher resolution, large format, non-flickering, non-backlit displays are available, but not in the quantities required and not, yet, at a realistic price. After years of looking at other forms of electronic books, I’d say once ebook makers overcome this hurdle, they’ll be mainstream.

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Written by Bill Bennett

November 30th, 2009 at 8:25 am

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  1. Forrester (another research outfit) argues that textbooks will be the killer app of the ebook (or should that be the other way round?)

    I think that makes sense – textbooks and reference books are crying out for the kind of search and linking functionality that could be offered by digital media. The religious market alone could be huge – searchable bibles and concordances ought to be very popular and useful to that constituency…

    Freelance Unbound

    4 Dec 09 at 11:50 am

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