rothman said:

Same old troll, BB ;-).

right. i deal in facts, and you call me names, and somehow it's _me_ who is the "troll" here. ;+)

My big point here

oh please. your "big point" is bullshit. <- fact! and i've told people precisely _why_ it's bullshit, and you have no rejoinder. you don't even _try_ to mount a counter, because you don't have one.

My big point here is that schools and libraries and the rest of us should be preparing--

your message -- whether you know it or not -- is that people should _wait_, because the tech is "right around the corner", but not _here_ yet. so everyone is sitting around waiting, while google raids the library. thanks for the catatonia, david...

the capabilities will be coming sooner or later.

your message is that they will be coming _later_. let's contrast that with the message of michael hart, which is that "we can make e-books happen right now."

Glad BB himself has been so 100 percent infallible, especially about ePub (Sony signed up for ZML lately?).

i already have my response written concerning all that... i'm waiting to send it until people get back from holiday. suffice it to say for now that you're a tool of the industry, david, the corporate dinosaur publishing industry, and there is no future for the dinosaurs, zero future at all... sony will never sign up for z.m.l., because they can't slap d.r.m. on it, so they chose the publishers' .epub instead... that's quite some victory, david. just like the "victory" you had a decade ago, when microsoft slapped d.r.m. on the earlier version of .epub. now this time it's adobe, but the story will turn out the very same way, just watch. but oh well, the executives bought themselves some more quarters, even if profitability wasn't as good as they hoped.

As for E Ink, it's just one of several possibilities out there. My pointer in fact was to Pixel Qi.

yeah, see how quickly you disown your own past, david. you promoted e-ink unceasingly, for years and years, in hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of your blog entries. and now pixel qi is about to prove that you were _wrong_ about e-ink being "the future" that was "around the corner". so you ditch e-ink as if you never knew it. you chase every technology that sends you a press release, instead of having the real-world discipline that requires working models, or at least something more than vapor... -bowerbird