Adventures in e-Books
In a sense, the mission of this new column is to answer Andrew Leonard's question. The simple response is that the infrastructure required to give him what he wants when he wants it is still incomplete. In the coming months, I will address what needs to be done to satisfy the basic requirements for an infrastructure that will be able to supply consumers with the information they seek. I will examine the strategies, the technologies and the various niche markets. Although my focus will be on the present and the near-future, there will be a time and a place for some more speculative reflection on how we all might be reading ten years hence. And I will always be mindful of where we have come from; the history of the transmission of information from an economic, cultural and societal perspective.