Thanks to Apple's big product announcement today, the world should finally get focused on the concept of downloading newspapers and magazines to read on an eco-friendly, instantly updatatable e-tablet.
Others like Amazon (with the Kindle), Hearst (with the Skiff) and Plastic Logic (with the business-purposed Que) also are pursing the media tablet notion.
And talk about a long time coming.
Since 1993, when he was the guru of the Knight Ridder Information Design Laboratory, Roger Fidler has been envisioning an electronic tablet-based newspaper.
Back then, talking with me for a "future tech" feature I wrote for Playboy magazine, Fidler envisioned that users would refill the tablet daily at an electronic kiosk (who knew there'd be 3-G/4-G mobile networks?) and perhaps roll the device up for stashing in a coat pocket or bag.
Today, Fidler is still on top of the concept as program director for digital publishing at the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the University of Missouri. So I thought I'd tap his brain again about how this concept should now play out.
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