When you read this article “Apple Tablet To Redefine Newspapers, Textbooks, and Magazines” you get the feeling that a new revolution is coming via Apple, again. But as with all new technologies: what would the customer do with it?
While saving the environment for those “one ofs” like newspapers that you don’t keep and throw away and textbooks you resell after you have learned something, there’s one aspect that if the right connections are made, would be a HUGE difference.
Read this article first, Google Books: On-Demand Paperbacks from Digital Library.
Now when you combine both the “tablet” of Google Books of both digital and printed versions you’ve got a method of getting information to whoever needs it in whatever form they want it.
Imagine being able to print cheaply books for inner city kids or third world countries who may not be able to get a book?
How about printing your own book out or have someone purchase and if they like the digital version ordering, hopefully “at cost” the printed version.
While we all want to think that digital will replace print, I don’t think so. The same was said of computers reducing the amount of paper being used. Not!
But having important books in your iPhone or iTablet to read or refer to when needed, it’s a boon to getting things done.
What do you think?
