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Essay: An Idea Whose Time Has Come Back December 5, 2004 By SARAH GLAZER: "UNTIL recently, I thought electronic books were sharing a graveyard with eight-track tapes, Betamax video recorders and record players. Industry predictions five years ago that e-books would quickly replace paper never came to pass. I figured the digital book had failed because everyone shared my distaste for the first generation of clunky, book-sized devices designed for viewing them. And in fact Gemstar, the principal manufacturer of the electronic readers, stopped selling them last year. But it turns out the e-book market has been changing course and, though still tiny, has been growing at double-digit rates." Read more: NYTimes.com 2004-12-05 10:16:44 PM 
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