A $20 eBook reader unencumbered by DRM. This is what it would take for eBooks to take off, in my view. And the technology is within our grasp; what is missing at the moment is the will. The only thing I don't quite get is the need for the 'illumination' format for content. That said, "it does what Nicholas Negroponte originally intended; namely, it brings education, knowledge, learning, to those billions of human beings in this world who lack electricity, let alone a connection to the Internet, who have never read a book, but whose lives would be improved immeasurably by the ability to do so at negligible cost."
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