{"id":2912,"date":"2009-04-21T12:54:22","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2009-04-21T12:54:22","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:54:22","slug":"e-readers-and-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/e-readers-and-the-future.html","title":{"rendered":"E-Readers and the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/alatechsource.org\/blog\/2009\/04\/a-techsource-blogger-forum-e-readers-and-libraries.html\">ALA TechSource has a brief blogger forum post<\/a> on the state of E-Book Readers.\u00a0 The quote that I think is most worth thinking about comes from Jason Griffey:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>E-books are the future of reading in a very real way, simply because at some point they will be too cheap to not use. One of my staff brought a receipt to me this week for a laptop that the library bought in 2000. It was $3600. I just priced netbooks for my library, and can get a machine that is ridiculously more powerful than the year-2000 laptop for under $350. The Kindle, and most other e-readers, are hovering around the $350 or so dollar mark right now. In ten years, what will they cost? How can paper continue to compete with Moore&#8217;s Law?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Not only does it make sense, for reasons of legality (terms of use) and usability, to wait before purchasing and implementing E-Readers in a library, but it also makes sense from a monetary standpoint.\u00a0 Amazon&#8217;s Kindle is king of the hill right now, but I think the big one is yet to arrive.\u00a0 Watch for it, however:\u00a0 when the convergence of price, usability, and usefulness happens, you want to be ready.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ALA TechSource has a brief blogger forum post on the state of E-Book Readers.\u00a0 The quote that I think is most worth thinking about comes from Jason Griffey: E-books are the future of reading in a very real way, simply &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/21\/e-readers-and-the-future.html\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2920,2921,2943,2945,2962],"tags":[4462,4490,4088,4860,4487,4486,4488,4333,4632,4491,4489,3021],"class_list":["post-2912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-libraries","category-licensing","category-publishing","tag-ala","tag-ala-techsource","tag-amazon","tag-e","tag-e-book-readers","tag-e-readers","tag-jason-griffey","tag-kindle","tag-king","tag-moores-law","tag-techsource","tag-usd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pSU5g-KY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.libology.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}