These Ain't Last Year's eReaders

At the TOC conference this year, the conversation is not longer about explaining eBook basicis–now panelists are talking about interoperability between dozens of devices, reading on the cloud, and how not to piss off consumers, who suddenly have a lot of devices and stores to choose between. “e-Ink devices now look a thousand years old,” said Liza Daly, at the outset of her panel on eReaders. Keith Fahlgren during the same panel, called the Kindle 2 a “monochromatic chunk of plastic.”