Quote, unquote: Is the iPad today's CD-Rom?

"I can’t wait to play around with this. But I don’t see myself rushing to pay for repurposed paper magazines and newspapers sprinkled with a few audio-visual doodads. That didn’t fly with CD-ROMs and it won’t fly on the iPad." -- Blogger Scott Rosenberg (one of the original founders of Salon) considering a comparison between the (largely unfulfilled) promise of CD-ROM in 1994 and the unknown