It seems in many ways that email/IM has become a more important part of the internet's impact than the web. I think we can even argue that email would have succeeded with or without the web and the overall internet hype -- it's just too convenient a medium.
That's not true. Newer PDF versions (5+?) allow you to "tag" files to make the text reflow if it was for example on a Palm.
In many ways, PDF may be the next great hope for eBooks, since there's already a critical mass of people who could read them (pretty much any computer user) and people know what they are.
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It seems in many ways that email/IM has become a more important part of the internet's impact than the web. I think we can even argue that email would have succeeded with or without the web and the overall internet hype -- it's just too convenient a medium.
That's not true. Newer PDF versions (5+?) allow you to "tag" files to make the text reflow if it was for example on a Palm. In many ways, PDF may be the next great hope for eBooks, since there's already a critical mass of people who could read them (pretty much any computer user) and people know what they are.