"I've seen the future, and it works". Lincoln Steffens
Här är tre perspektiv på läsplattan - Nelson, Coupland och Alice.
The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.
Det är företaget IDEO som tagit fram förslagen, och det är kanske första gången som jag riktigt kan se nyttan med en läsplatta. Att läsa tillsammans med andra och om man vill bryta ut upplevelsen och dela den med vänner eller kollegor, så vackert och så enkelt!
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'People are taking matters in[to] their own hands because the publishers are not meeting the market's needs,'' said Takagi.
Bookscan converts books into PDF files that can be read on the iPad, iPhone, Amazon's Kindle and Barnes & Noble's Nook. The company charges 100 yen ($1.20) a book for a service called ''jisui'' or ''cooking for oneself''.
''The homemade e-book market will continue to exist as long as the copyright situation isn't dealt with and people cannot find books they want in electronic format,'' said Masashi Ueno, a researcher at Yano Research Institute.
Japan's copyright laws permit users to digitise protected works for personal and family use, according to Seichi Higuchi, the secretary general of Japan Book Publishers Association. Reproduction of a purchased work by a third party requires the publisher's permission, Higuchi said. Bookscan requires customers to tick a box to say they have this permission.
