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Is the authors implication that in the digital nature of ebooks the ability to manipulate text becomes easier? Regardless of medium isn't this always a possibil
by monatron 14y ago
Is the authors implication that in the digital nature of ebooks the ability to manipulate text becomes easier? Regardless of medium isn't this always a possibility? Whether it happens at the publisher and then printed on dead wood or otherwise -- to me it seems like one in the same?
- excuse-me 14y agoIt's rather harder for some government/publisher/web search company to modify the hardback copies on my shelf to airbrush Trotsky out of the pictures. With an eBook all it takes is a click by somebody at Amazon
- glesica 14y agoThis is a good argument against DRM and e-book-related cloud services but not really against e-books generally. I own a Nook and have never bought a locked-down e-book, so the publisher really can't edit the copy I own short of breaking into my computer.
- oh_sigh 14y agoNo it doesn't take "a click". It's pathetic how you malign Amazons good name, when they were the ones who are the victims in this case.