[WEB4LIB] Re: eBooks can exist with...

[Charles P. Hobbs]

Dan Lester wrote:

>
>
> I said previously that ebooks would be like the 8 tracks.  But, as
> "the other Dan" (Messer) pointed out, 8 tracks made some serious
> inroads for a few years.  Perhaps a better analogy, though less
> familiar to the non-audiophiles (which Walt Crawford certainly is),
> the ebooks will be like the Quad Stereo discs that were promoted for a
> while and never caught on for a host of reasons.  Or for a slightly
> more familiar technology, the Laser Disks of fairly recent memory.
>

That reminds me: anyone recall the various "Dead Media" discussions of a few years
ago?

http://www.vfs.com/~deadmedia/speech.htm

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Charles P. Hobbs
King Drew Health Science Library
http://www.cdrewu.edu/kdhsl