Are E-Books a Revolution?

Interesting discussion going on at The Constant Conversation surrounding Levi Asher’s recent point that e-book adoption is proceeding too slowly to really be a revolution, as everyone’s calling it.

Check the comments for some great points on both sides, including Mark Thwaite, who says in part:

Further, I’m still at a loss, really, to think why I’d bother to read an e-book on a dedicated reader and not on a multitasking machine that gives me a reading experience which is only “bad” when compared to an eReader if I want to read in situations that I rarely want to read in (say in bright sunlight or in the bath!)

But that doesn’t matter. A small market is there, and growing, and they will make some eReaders a profitable proposition. But, alongside that, there are enough nay-sayers – and publishing is cheap – to mean that the codex has a bright future . . .

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