[lbo-talk] as if on cue

Jeffrey Fisher jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
Mon Jan 31 08:07:40 PST 2011


further along the same lines: "singles" not in music, but in written work.

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/chapter-and-verse/2011/0131/Can-Kindle-Singles-revolutionize-reading

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 7:28 PM, Wojtek S <wsoko52 at gmail.com> wrote:


> [WS:] Not necessarily. You can download a free application (as I did) and
> install it on a netbook or an i-pad.
>
> My concern is of different nature. First - it gives the published the
> total
> control of the distribution and circulation of the book after it has been
> sold. You will not be able to loan a book to someone else (except on the
> conditions prescribed by Amazon) or buy a used copy. There is no
> after-market on e-books - you have to buy your copy from Amazon (or other
> distributors.) Many people do not think much about it, but I simply do not
> trust corporations, especially when they exercise uncontrolled monopoly
> power.
>
> Second - and this is a very remote possibility at the moment - the digital
> control of the e-book distribution will make Bradbury's vision of book
> burning (Fahrenheit 451) a far more easy to implement. They will not need
> to send to send firemen with canisters of kerosene anymore - they will
> simply pull the plug and change the code. It is that simple. Again, I am
> not saying that it is imminent or likely to happen but, hey, before 1939
> few
> believed that the nation of Bach and Goethe will be overrun by barbaric
> mass
> murderers.
>
> Wojtek
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 4:23 PM, Jeffrey Fisher <jeff.jfisher at gmail.com
> >wrote:
>
> > welcome the new digital overlord:
> >
> >
> http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/onepercent/2011/01/kindle-is-mightier-than-the-bo.html
> >
> > This does not of course indicate a decline in reading. If anything, quite
> > the contrary. It's a lot of money to spend on something you only use for
> > reading books.
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