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<span style="font-size: 20px; font-weight: bold;
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alt="" height="118" width="118"></a>Ereaders
and tablets, for the most part, have not had much
effect on the book. That is, an ebook on an
ereader is currently little different than a book
printed on paper; it's the same content delivered
in a different medium. A few recent developments
indicate, however, that ereading may be about to
take advantage of some features that can only be
delivered by an electronic device, and that some
of these may be so attractive that ereaders and
tablets will become the way we all choose to read.
And if your reaction to the current experiments
is, "nah, not interested," remember that someday,
someone may come up with the "killer" ereader app
that creates a massive change in everyone's
reading expectations. </p>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
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href="http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/08/multitouch-ereader-paper-liquidtext.html">Multitouch
and the quest to make ereaders more flexible
than paper</a> (O'Reilly Radar/Jenn Webb) "For
example, one can pinch together parts of a
document to bring disparate areas into proximity
to compare them, or one can touch two text
selections at once to create a link between
them. Cumulatively, these functions together
with those addressing annotation, note taking
and other parts of the reading process let
LiquidText bring to the world of ereaders even
greater flexibility than paper."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
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href="http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/22/kno-turns-textbooks-3d-video/">Kno
turns textbooks 3D</a> (TechCrunch/Erick
Schonfeld) "The 3D feature right now works only
with models of molecules in chemistry textbooks.
It converts the standard chemistry notations
indicating how atoms are bonded together in a
molecule into a spinning 3D model along the
margins. These 3D models can be enlarged and
rotated to give students a better visualization
of how each one appears."</li>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><a
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href="http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/ebooks_with_soundtracks.php">Startup
launches e-books with soundtracks for
immersive reading</a> (ReadWriteWeb/John Paul
Titlow) "What makes this approach interesting is
the underlying technology, which syncs the
changes in sound with your reading speed, which
is something the application learns as you go.
Some readers might find the tiny triangular icon
sliding down the margin of the page as you go
distracting. For others, it may be akin to using
one's finger as a pacer while reading a book."</li>
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href="http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/why-did-facebook-buy-an-e-book-publisher/">Why
did Facebook buy an e-book publisher?</a> (New
York Times/Nick Bilton) "...the social network
announced that it was <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://pushpoppress.com/about/">acquiring
Push Pop Press</a>, a digital book maker that
specializes in interactive books for the Apple
iPad and iPhone. The e-books built by the
publisher feel like movies; interactive graphics
with words sprinkled about cross the page. Could
we expect Facebook to start making and selling
e-books on its Web site where it would go
head-to-head with Apple, Amazon and Google?"</li>
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<p style="text-align: left; font-size: 20px;
font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;"><small><strong><em>Owner
fact:</em></strong></small><br>
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font-family: arial; line-height: 110%;">In May of
this year, <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Internet</a> reported that ereader ownership
among U.S. adults had doubled to 12% from 6% in
November 2010, while tablet ownership had leveled
off at about 8%. </div>
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