I predict that the future of books, specifically e-books, is updates. Just like app developers make updates to their apps, authors would send updates to e-books too.
For example - page 10 of Reid Hoffman's book, The Start-up of You (Feb, 2012), reads "...thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose at Digg and Milk (his mobile apps firm)...".
On March 2012, Google acquired Milk, and in July 2012, Betaworks acquired Digg, so that sentence is already dated. Therefore Reid could send an update to your kindle like, ."..thinking through the future of the mobile Internet with Kevin Rose formally of Digg (acquired by Betaworks) and Milk (acquired by Google)…"
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