The MIT e-book as product
Weight comparable to regular book
Commercially available in 2000
Notes:
In the WIRED feature �Digital Ink, 5/5/97, Charles Platt reports �Jacobson thinks a working e-book is just a couple of years away, with a retail price of maybe $400.�
Obtained from http://www.wired.com/wired/5.05/features/ff_digitalink on June 3, 1998.
Image: From MIT Research Digest Feb. 1996 Book of the Future newsblurb, obtained from http://web.mit.edu/newsoffice/www/Feb96RD#book on June 3, 1998.