Read and summarise according to instructions in the syllabus the following:

"The Battle to Define the Future of the Book in the Digital World"
http://firstmonday.org/issues/issue6_6/lynch/#l1
(read up to & including "The Control of Digital Books")

"2001 was a hard read for e-books"
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,49297,00.html

"Online Books at Columbia: Measurement and Early Results on Use,
Satisfaction, and Effect "
http://arl.cni.org/scomm/scat/

"Microsoft Tablet PCs Near Completion"
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020703S0012

Based on these articles...
What do you think is the future of online reading? Did you read these
articles on the screen or print them out? Do you think we'll see lots
of portable e-books in the future? Is there a technical innovation that
would make them popular? Would they be a good thing or a bad thing,
in your opinion?