My Bible Plans blog
The promising future of the traditional book
Michael Hyatt, leader of Thomas Nelson Publishers, was impressed* by the new SI Tablet book/magazine/news reader device.
While hestitant that his first instinct is right, he predicts that the new wave of e-readers will kill paper books as color TV killed black-and-white TV ("Once it happened, there was no going back. Everyone wanted a color TV.")
The case for the paper book's longetivity
I only have one reason, that God likes paper books and left multimedia content out of his word. So I expect human beings to still be very connected to word-only books that don't have pictures and movies built in.
(Hyatt probably believes this too, and his article is more focused on how hard it will be for business to make a profit on word-only paper books going forward.)
*If you read the article, and play the video demo, cut it off after a minute too avoid sexy images