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Stephen Downes

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Well, actually, I would put a 'next' button in the corner. The convenience and ease of a lightening-fast paging feature cannot be overestimated. Having a way to read without messing around with links and pointers and scroll-bars would be a huge plus. The ebook reader that gives you open content and a really good '
next' button will be the one that wins the day. Everything else is - quite literally - bells and whistles. (Well, OK, you need touchscreens and wifi and cameras and microphone jacks and flash memory and.... but my main point still holds). What do we not need? A special tablet for Sports illustrated, different tablets for each publisher, locked in proprietary content, digital rights management...

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