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Stephen Downes

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There has been widespread coverage of a newly announced eBook reader from Plastic Logic intended to challenge the Amazon Kindle. So far, the only benefits to these things I'm seeing are to the publishers: users get to pay more for their content, and to have it erased at the publishers' whims. Still, at least this new reader supports PDF, Word, PowerPoint and Excel, and not just Amazon's proprietary format. Naturally, content produced for one does not work on the other.

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Last Updated: Dec 23, 2024 2:14 p.m.

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