As soon as the distribution rights are sorted with books (and what a
minefield that will be!!), I can see schools such as PLC ditching
laptops altogether and going for ipads and the keyboard adapter kit.
Ditching hefty textbooks will be a boon for kids with sore backs!
Watch the explosion of educational software come out.....great time to
be a cocoa developer :-)
Seeya
Rod :-)
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On 28/01/2010, at 1:13 PM, Chris Griffiths <des...@visualm.com.au>
wrote:
Mmm… not sure.
I guess I wasn't talking about the romantic young couple. Yes, I can
see the need for the butter stained romantic hard bound book. You
could always use a stained digital background on your iPad ;)
I was talking about the commercial books; your paperbacks, your
business books & especially your student text books (90% of the
books sold in the newsagency). Not to mention the newspapers and mags.
Also, technology accelerates. Yes, it will be an interesting future.
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On 28/01/2010, at 12:55 PM, Mark Secker wrote:
I can people using products such as these to replace magazines,
periodicals and factual repository books (dictionaries/
encyclopedias etc)... Our “normal computers, both desktop and lapt
op have already been doing this over the last 15 years...
Project Gutenberg and Google books along with ewer devices like
the iPhone & touch and Kindle and now the iPad will accelerate
this...
But... Don’t look at books dying not in our lifetime, probably no
t even in the long term future....
There is a very visceral connection with books that no hand held
device will emulate.
Try imagine a young couple punting down the river Cam reading
Wordsworth, Byron and Keats from their Kindle ...
One shade the more, one ray the less,
Had half impair'd the nameless grace
Which waves in every raven tress,
Or softly lightens o'er her f.. OH! FUDGE!!... Batteries gone
and snuffed it already
And “ an iPad stained with butter drips from crumpets" just doe
sn’t strike me as a memorable quote
Maybe in 10 years time you won’t see magazines for sale, nor the
airport lounge pulp fiction paperbacks.
Maybe in 20 years books will return to being the rare “prestige pr
oduct” that they once were, with only the “classics”, both modern
and old, will be put to press.. and hard bound.. Ready to soak up
butter drips from crumpets.
On 28/01/10 11:12 AM, "Chris Griffiths" <des...@visualm.com.au>
wrote:
I agree with you Paul.
It won't be long before traditional print will be a rarity
especially with the protests around chopping down forests and
greenhouse warming.
Offset print will decline rapidly. I have even seen it in the last
few years. Printers that were running 24hrs a day are now running
the presses a lot less and some have even stopped some presses.
Now if you know about these presses you know how much it costs to
stop and start them!
Yes, maybe we will have a paperless society sooner than we think.
Especially when we have the advent of the iPad and obviously other
pads.
Regards Chris Griffiths
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On 28/01/2010, at 10:54 AM, Paul Weaver wrote:
I suspect that for developed countries there is a very good
chance that the iPad and Apple’s enormous marketing strength i
s finally going to radically change media distribution for boo
ks, magazines, newspapers and movies. It’s been a technologica
l change predicted for a while, but this brilliant invention w
ill do the trick. Most cinemas and regular bookshops, even in
this remote neck of the woods are probably doomed, same with v
ideo rental outlets. Print newspapers which underestimate the
potential of the new technology will surely fail. I’m thinking
it might take less than five years. The introduction of the i
Pad is a seminal event.
Paul. ;)
Dr Paul R. Weaver
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