Pat wrote: > I have a Sony 505. The books on my reader are on my reader and on my > desktop, not on my account on someone else's server. If anyone wants to > delete them [think 1984] or whatever, they have to physically steal my > reader and then delete the book. I own them outright. Nobody else has any > rights in the copies I own except, in this state, if I had a legally married > spouse. (Community property state). > > No one gonna take my 505 away .... > > That's nice, but if I was a best selling author I think I'd be pretty reluctant to sell my book that way for fear that someone would make copies and give them away a la mp3 file sharing. And unlike musicians, authors aren't likely to make a lot of money on tour so once their book is being distributed for free, they're SOL.
Other than the ownership factor, how do you like your reader so far? Doug
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