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- Trees may breathe sigh of relief
- Printed page becoming outdated
- SAN FRANCISCO (Friday, 10-15-99)--It might sound a bit self-serving for an upstart like the Yakima Valley News online to herald the end of the ink-and-paper page.
- When keynote speakers at a printer conference signal the retirement of the tree gobbling enterprise, however, that's different. And that's
- exactly what happened at the Seybold Printer Convention in San Francisco, Aug. 30.
- Recent advances in "e-book" technology predict an electronic device people can read anywhere, which will equal or surpass the beauty and clarity of today's printed page.
- In addition, the mobile e-book would easily provide its user access to any information source on the planet--with pictures. Users could consult vast archives of background info to help keep in context current and breaking news.
- This gloomy message--at least for newspapers--was delivered Aug. 30 at Seybold by Microsoft's Dick Brass. Part of Brass' pitch was for his company's new e-publishing technology, according to the Printing Journal.
- Said PJ author Patrick Henry, Brass "described the evolution of e-books from being prohibitively expensive eyesores to the point where they are reasonably close to books in terms of readability and affordability."
- All this means, of course, is Yakima Valley News readers in Sunnyside and Bombay could bring us up on screen in a cop car, in a hot air balloon, or under the covers. Pretty cool, huh?