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Monday, January 25, 2010

Re-Introducing Steve Jobs and His Thoughts on "Readers"

New Steve Jobs:

“This will be the most important thing I’ve ever done” – Steve Jobs, referring to the soon-to-be-launched Apple Tablet.


Old Steve Jobs:

“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.” - Steve Jobs, referring to Amazon's Kindle and other similar devices.
Posted by hilltaylor@unc.edu at 1:12 PM
Labels: Amazon Kindle, Apple Tablet, Steve Jobs

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Hill Taylor is a researcher at the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina, and is also on faculty in UNC's English Department where he teaches courses in new media and writing. Dr. Taylor's research focuses on Information Literacy, Human Information Interaction, Library 2.0 Technologies, Scholarly Communication, and Literacy in Social Media.

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