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Amazon's remote deletion of e-books
As an independent publisher of e-books I had always had the impression that the Kindle e-books were intended to be kept by the buyer, just in the same way that print books are. It was not until the lawsuit that I found out about the ''leasing'' arrangement. In the face of piracy issues and other problems with copyright and infringement, it is ...
Posted to Technology by TMoore on October 2, 2009
ebook v pbook: a false war
Proponents of the various publishing camps have all the fervour of Jehova's Witnesses on the doorstep. But, just as there are many routes to God, so there are many ways to read. Indeed there is even room for the literary atheists and agnostics! Of course most reading matter is not books in any traditional sense, and a great deal of that being ...
Posted to The Big Idea by debtcontrolman on March 23, 2009