RE: tlug: Printed media?? Who needs TeX?

["Olinsky, Craig" <olinskyc@example.com>]

	...People have been talking this "books are gonna disappear any day
now" kind of stuff for a very long time, and it's no where near happening.
It will be many years before that even starts to happen.  So far, the number
of books published keeps going up and up, and if somebody does develop a
worthwhile technology for electronic books (there isn't any now), guess what
the first thing that will happen is? Somebody will write a paper book about
it :-)

	Actually, I've seen a few articles recently about a few possibilites
"soon to be available" kicking around the various news sites.

	http://cnn.com/TECH/computing/9808/05/ebooks.idg/index.html


	Electronic books: Papercut-free reading 

	"Until recently, digital readers didn't have much to read. Forays
into electronic book publishing had failed miserably: Books on CD-ROM were
silly attempts to digitize. After all, who would want to read Stephen King
in front of a PC when they could buy the analog version and sun themselves
at the beach while flipping pages? What's more, books on CD made publishers
a little squirrelly; from their perspective, it was far too easy to make
duplicate copies or to print out books. Stand-alone electronic units -- much
like today's personal digital assistants -- haven't had much success either.
The Sony Bookman used CDs and had a low-res screen. 

	"But by the end of the year we'll see two new products that may
revolutionize reading; more e-book devices are expected next year. Softbook
Press's Softbook and NuvoMedia's Rocketbook are tabletlike gadgets that hold
thousands of pages of digital text -- but the similarities end there. 

	...

	Craig Olinsky (olinskyc@example.com)
	-- not speaking for intel

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