New Photos of the Notion Ink Tablet; A Couple of Interesting Ebook Related Posts no comments
Technoholik has some more photos of the Notion Ink Adam tablet, as well as a chart with the specs. It seems that Notion Ink may plan to release a Pixel Qi version as well as a model with a regular LCD screen. As of yet no definitive prices or availability have been announced, though in an earlier interview at Technoholik a June launch in the U.S. was mentioned.
Slashgear also has a video of the Adam which shows the camera that swivels to the front for webcam use and to the back for taking photos.
The Adam is looking pretty interesting.
A Couple of Interesting Posts About Ebooks and the Publishing Industry
In Towards A World of Smaller Books Ezra Klein notes that many non-academic non-fiction paper books start out as essays and are then padded out with repetitive material to achieve a desirable length for publishing on paper. He speculates that as ebooks predominate this will change and we will see more shorter format work with less bloat. You can read the post at Crooked Timber.
Dan Agin writes an eloquent criticism of the book publishing industry and its apparent inability to adapt to digital publishing at the Huffington Post. Agin seems to think that the whole paper book industry will mostly disappear, and that paper books will some day become relatively rare and costly ( read his response to comments ). I can imagine this happening eventually, but not in our lifetimes. Then again, all it would take is a couple of generations growing up reading mostly digital books and schoolbooks.
