The Rise of eBooks by Paul Stamatiou
From all the negativity something good comes from it.
What am I talking about? Well, any dedicated (aka blog addicted) blogger worth his salt would no doubt have seen the frenzy over at 9rules this week. Wow!
Well earlier today I was happily having my lunch scrolling through some of the comments that’s been flying thick and fast and I come across one trackback that caught my attention.
Paul Stamatiou casually lets out that he’s finishing up a paper on eBooks. Hello! This I am interested in … so off I go to his site, dropped him an email saying I would be very interested in reading his piece. Within minutes he had sent it to me. What a guy!
Now it’s not often I come across a well written, thought-provoking piece on eBooks and the eBook industry and this, I’m happy to say, was one of the them - so I shot Paul back an email: Can I pdf it, post about it and offer it for download to whom ever may be interested. Five minutes later: no problems. Did I say I love this guy!!!
Paul has written a short paper titled “The Rise of eBooks”.
In the paper, Paul asks:
What ways are traditional books exceptionally better than eBooks in their current form? The only issue regards the fact that eBooks require a device, a high-tech medium, to display their contents. This device then requires some form of electricity to power it. However, rapidly advancing technologies are making this a non-issue.
Talking about ePublishers and more so, device manufacturers (he discusses a little about the recent unveiling of the new eReader from Sony - big post coming on that one next week):
Massive changes are emerging as eBooks are on the forefront and brink of a born-again digital revolution.
Paul hits the mark, because we are at the forefront of a new push with eBooks. I know of a number of device manufacturers coming out with eReaders during the year and if you add the great technology that’s finally getting due recognition, e-Ink, Paul is onto something here.
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Download the 5-page paper, The Rise of eBooks (PDF - 14.7Kb)
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So who is this guy Paul Stamatiou?
Paul is a 19 year old sophmore attending the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, Georgia. He writes on tech at PaulStamatiou.com and is a member of 9rules - I read on his blog that he has aspirations of being a tech writer one day. All the best and remember me when you become a famous columnist at MaximumPC or some other high-tech magazine. :-)
5 Responses to “The Rise of eBooks by Paul Stamatiou”
By John Evans (Syntagma) on Feb 17, 2006 | Reply
Thanks for the ebook, Martin. Interesting little thesis.
BTW, I thought I had all the ebook readers out there, but I hadn’t heard of the Sony one. I look forward to your post.
By Martin Neumann on Feb 17, 2006 | Reply
John,
Remember, it was for a school paper and he was limited in what to write about and in length - but I still thought it was a great read. Anything that makes you think is a winner with me.
You haven’t heard of the new reader from Sony! It was anveiled at CES expo earlier this year and some decent press coverage was given to it for a day or so.
But don’t worry, a pretty thorough post on it is coming up next week.
By Mike on Feb 17, 2006 | Reply
Hey Martin,
Thanks for the PDF.
I saw the Sony reader, but am not sure it’ll be big.
I like my ebooks with multimedia…audio buttons and Flash videos….that’s a real ebook.
Love the new blog, keep up the good work and I look forward to learning a lot and leaving a little behind when I come thru.
By Martin Neumann on Feb 18, 2006 | Reply
Hi Mike … thanks for moving over from HOV to ePubDaily ;-)
The PDF - It’s a good little read from a young guy who put some thought into it.
Ahh, the Sony Reader! I wish I could get my hands on one to review it properly but alas, it’s only intended for the US market - so I’m going to write about it from the 30 or so articles I’ve gathered on it.
Hey … why not write me a quick first-hand review, Mike - I’ll inlcude it in the post.
Leave a lot behind, Mike … I’m getting invaluable stuff from all the comments here.