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I think this essay, written in 1997, is worth another read in light of the recent iPad announcement, and the closed and locked down platform it provides.
by lambda 17y ago
I think this essay, written in 1997, is worth another read in light of the recent iPad announcement, and the closed and locked down platform it provides.
- adw 17y agoExcept that the iPad uses ePub - the standard, open, DRM-free eBook format.
- barrkel 17y agoOptional DRM, you mean. And I can't imagine that booksellers have yet reached the same degree of enlightenment that the music vendors have lately been reaching.
- biehl 17y agoWell, except for the music streaming services. Which are as DRM infected as ever.
- lambda 17y agoePub is not DRM free; ePub simply has no standardized DRM. All of the major ePub bookstores sell books with some sort of DRM; for the most part, the only ePub books you can find without DRM are the public domain books from Project Gutenberg and the like.
- ubernostrum 17y agoI think the level of sheer irrational panic displayed in light of the recent iPad announcement is deserving of everybody calming the hell down for a minute and actually using their brains. I realize this isn't the trendy thing to do when one can instead start screaming and pointing at alarmist rants, but I do think we'd all be better off for some rational thought here and there.