Humble Beginnings

Upon graduating college, Michael Arkes had a job lined up in Champaign, Illinois as a math teacher. Prior to starting his new teaching job, he “took a weekend off” to go up to Chicago to help his father out some with the family business. Forty years later, Arkes has made “helping with the family business” into a successful career.
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CES: "The Year of the Tablet PC"

What could potentially throw e-readers a curveball? The evolution of tablet PCs. Tablet PCs like the Notion Ink Adam Smartpad blurs the lines between e-readers and PCs by essentially acting like an e-reader with a web browser attachment. With Apple potentially partnering with book publishers, its anticipated Tablet (along with the other tablets) could cross over and become a threat to the e-reader market.
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