Ebooks are now in the doldrums. Few people are buying ebooks.

Not long ago, I, as well as many others, predicted an ebook boom.

It didn’t happen. The outlook now seems to be terrible. There

are several reasons for this:

1 – Proliferation of Readers – Rocket, Gemstar, Microsoft,

plus many more

2 – Expensive Readers

3 – Proliferation of Formats – exe, oeb, pdf, CE, LIT and many

other alphabetical combinations

4 – Reading the Screen is Difficult and Awkward

5 – Lack of Portability

6 – Obtrusive Copyright Protection – the Microsoft Reader is

a case in point. People don’t want this. They want “fair use.”

Despite all this I still believe an ebook boom beach hack android is coming. The

boom wasn’t stopped; it was merely delayed. Within about 1-1/2

to 2 years we will see the ebook business grow fast. It will

not replace paper books, but it will be a strong rival, especially

in text books, technical books and business books.

Why? Because of the arrival of bluetooth technology. Like the

ebook, bluetooth has been previously hyped a little to early.

But indications are that major computer corporations are finally

beginning to use bluetooth technology.

Why will bluetooth technology make such a big change? Because

it will allow you to connect any peripheral devices to the desktop

computer WITHOUT WIRES. This, in turn will allow you to make

the monitor portable. With proper design, the portable monitor

may also be an ebook reader. This ebook reader will replace all

other gadgets and make ebook reading more comfortable and easier

than book reading has ever been.

For those who would like to build a monitor-reader, here are

some requirements that I think it should meet:

1 – NORMAL MONITOR FUNCTIONS – It should be able to function

as a normal monitor

2 – COMFORTABLE AS A BOOK – The size, shape and weight of the

device can easily be made to appear and feel like a book. With

a little experimentation the cover of the monitor-reader could

be made as soft to the touch as paper or leather.

3 – NO COPYRIGHT CONTROLS – The big corporations in the news,

music, software and movie industries are shooting for burdensome

encryption controls. Such controls will die just as earlier software

encryption controls died. For those who cling to encryption controls,

they may do it with software without affecting the monitor-reader.

4 – ACCEPT ALL FORMATS – The current monitor accepts all formats

that do not require special reading devices. If the monitor-reader

is effective, no special ebook readers will be needed

5 – VIEWING CONTROLS – It should have simple means for varying

the light, the fonts, and the page size for optimum viewing in

differently lighted locations.

6 – READING CONTROLS – In addition to page turning and bookmarking,

it should enable the human reader to make notes and to copy and

paste quotations or other ideas to other computer files.

6 – INEXPENSIVE – About $100. It may not be reachable at first.

But it will happen once the idea catches on and people buy the

unit.

Once such a monitor-reader is produced, the ebook world will

explode and the media industries will be transformed. The monitor-reader

will have all the advantages of a regular book:

>Portability

>Ease of Use

>Good Looks

plus advantages a paper book does not have:

>Vision Comfort Adjustments

>Note Taking and Excerpting

>Instantaneous Emailing to Colleagues of Excerpts

>Incorporation of Ebook into Your Computer Data Base

>Instant Hyperlinks

>Fast Acquisition through Downloads

>Easy, Fast Updating – especially useful for text books

>Inexpensive

Are you getting ready for the ebook boom? It’s taking its time

coming, but it will come!