The electronic daily presents other advantages:
It allows for immediate feedback and for flowing, almost real-
time, communication between writers and readers. The
electronic version, therefore, acquires a gyroscopic function:
a navigation instrument, always indicating deviations from the
"right" course. The content can be instantly updated and
immediacy has its premium (remember the Lewinsky affair?).
Strangely, this (conventional) field was the first to develop
a "virtual reality" facet. There are virtual "magazine
stalls". They look exactly like the real thing and the user
can buy a paper using his mouse.
Specialty hand held devices already allow for downloading and
storage of vast quantities of data (up to 4000 print pages).
The user gains access to libraries containing hundreds of
texts, adapted to be downloaded, stored and read by the
specific device. Again, a convergence of standards is to be
expected in this field as well (the final contenders will
probably be Adobe's PDF against Microsoft's MS-Reader).
Broadly, e-books are treated either as:
Continuation of print books (p-books) by other means
or as
A whole new publishing universe.
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