This link has been bookmarked by 61 people . It was first bookmarked on 20 Nov 2007, by Yam Chi-Keung.
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katarina peovicAct I: The act of buying; Act II: The act of giving; Act III: The act of lending; Act IV: The act of reading; Act V: The act of remembering; Act VI: The act of learning
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arnie GrossblattMark Pilgrim on the dark side DRM and the Kindle
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Carleen HuxleyDRM and the future of reading with ebooks.
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Sheryl Nussbaum-BeachWhen someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
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Electronic text books? Get real! By the time I’ve finished a subject (as an undergrad student), I’ve thumbed backward and forth in them numerous times, and have hand-written notes all over the place.
Even if one could annotate such books digitally, I’d still go for the paper version and hand-writing. There’s something physical about working by hand that gets lost in digital translation.
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Failing to remember one’s place in the book consistently is the ONLY reason that browsers are not ideal ebook readers - yet.
Oh yeah, and that they have to load the whole thing unless it’s formatted just right.
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Nancy WhiteWhen someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this. Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author’s Guild, 2002
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Actual Alto the idea of eventually doing that with the Kindle.
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Marc Ordinas i LlopisInteresting thoughts on e-books. I also think (and hope) the Kindle will flop.
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Act V: The act of remembering
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Michel BauwensAmazon's Kindle is a disaster for reading rights
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The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
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Jeff GiddensShould reading be free?
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Thomas BuyleKindle sucks...
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