Turning page, e-books start to take hold

09 January 2009 | 18:16 - By Stefano Boscutti

Could book lovers finally be willing to switch from paper to pixels?

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For a decade, consumers mostly ignored electronic book devices, which were often hard to use and offered few popular items to read. But this year, in part because of the popularity of Amazon.com's wireless Kindle device, the e-book has started to take hold.  The $359 Kindle, which is slim, white and about the size of a trade paperback, was introduced a year ago.  It has lived up to its name by creating broad interest in electronic books.  Now it is out of stock and unavailable until February. (The sooner we drop the hyphen and call them ebooks, the sooner they'll

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/24/technology/24kindle.html

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17 Jan 2009 22:58 AEST

char@contentrealtime.com

From: Austin, TX, USA

eBooks in the US are growing 400% per quarter

We are seeing huge quarter over quarter growth in the amount of customers that have an eBook reader of some sort and are downloading and consuming content. Something like 400% (Quarter over Quarter!). We have over 160,000 titles and are the cheapest for each title on the internet (that we know of). We think this is the "superstore" of this decade, like when he superstores ran all the small independent booksellers out of business (we were one, remember Carrollton Bookcenter, the family store

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New New Media looks at how our mediascape is exploding to bits. How the latest technology and the internet are changing the way we live, work and play. How the latest media is shaping us all.

Stefano Boscutti is an executive creative director and strategist. He's like a better looking version of Todd Sampson. He also has an abiding faith that stories and wordplay (and not powerpoint presentations) will change the world.

 
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