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E-Books: The Next Electronic Frontier
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Key players in the emerging industry gathered at Electronic Book '98
With the launch this fall of portable electronic books, or ebooks, we are witnessing a dual phenomenon: the conversion of large numbers of books to digital form and the distribution of convenient handheld readers with a variety of applications. Both have significant implications for the way we work and for our leisure reading.
Books are the third wave of electronic publishing. First, indexes from secondary publishers became searchable databases via Dialog in the '70s and on CD-ROMs in the '80s. When the Web became popular, primary journals began converting to PDF formats for local printing or an SGML …
