Mobile e-books deserve to have their own name

Date: August 16, 2009
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eReaderEverybody involved in a wonderful world of digital books is witnessing currently a huge trend: e-books become mobile. And it’s not just another form of an electronic book. It’s the new generation, which doesn’t have most of disadvantages of a first gen e-book. This is leading to one thought:

Mobile e-books deserve to have their own name. I call them “mo-books”.

There are a couple of reasons for that:

E-book is a bad thing :. For many people, especially book lovers, computer e-book is a surrogate, side effect or a bastard baby of a paper book. They associate electronic books with inconvenient text documents, being read on a 800 x 600 screen – in most cases at work. The stereotypical meaning of an e-book is: a document you read at work for professional purposes, which is as boring as any other computer document, well, apart from the fact that somebody, some day called it “a book”. »»»

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