“III by James Patrick Kellytold yaMy wife claims this is my I-told-you-so column, and, as usual, she's probably right. However, I prefer to think of it as my even-a-broken-clock-is-right-twice-a-day column. Mine was certainly not the only voice proclaiming the coming of ebooks when I first wrote a column about them way back in 2001. But here's the first paragraph:"Okay, it's time to get serious about online science fiction. New and reprint sites are popping up like mushrooms after a monsoon. Har...dware and software companies are offering new, or at least improved, technologies to ease the strain of eyeballing print on screens.” And here's a bit from the end: “Perhaps the most difficult problem e-publishers will face is finding a way to make money selling fiction on the net. Information wants to be free, or so they say. And if it isn't free, any number of netizens are willing to find ways to set it free. Hackers and data pirates have some print publishers scared silly. . . ."Writers too will face challenges.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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