[lbo-talk] e-Books and (especially) e-Readers

123hop at comcast.net 123hop at comcast.net
Tue Feb 14 11:24:33 PST 2012


What really blows my mind about all this is how natural it is for people to want to share stuff. And now there's a technology that makes it easy and eco-friendly to do so, and it is made into a crime.

Joanna

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I have caved in.... and now own an e-reader. I bought a subscription to a magazine, sent a few books to my Kindle account and now, it appears, I am set to rebuild library of several thousand books i had until last year - well not all the same ones, but you know what i mean... Then it occurred to me that I used to pass on old copies of Harper's magazine to friends - mainly I just kept them - and shared some, not too many, books with friends and students. But now that I accepted what I call the "acquiesced monopoly" that is Apple, I may no longer be able to share books and magazines. Not cool.

PS. Full Disclosure: Whatever replies/responses are submitted will be used (anonymously, of course) in a blog post I'm about to write about this. That way I will look clever.

 

Ismail Lagardien

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