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Yes, but pro photographers didn't abandon film in the mid-1990s when the 640-by-480 Apple Quicktake Camera came out. They waited for a digital product that didn't suck.

Paper book readers are still waiting. It's been a long wait, and the end is not yet in sight. From what I've read so far, the Quicktake was better at being a camera than the Kindle is at being a book: You had the option to photograph whatever you wanted, you weren't charged by the frame, you didn't need to read an FAQ in order to figure out how to press the shutter release, your pictures weren't invisibly sent to a corporate database to be mined for data, and the cameras presumably continue to work even though the bureaucracy that spawned them has long since lost interest in them.



Again, these are all transistent issues. All it takes is for one team to get its act together and make something that actually doesn't suck.

There are no technical barriers for the electronic book to overcome. It's all politics. And ass-hats.




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