From: "Bob W"
What really does stand a chance of stopping electronic books is the
> specter of DRM that Bill Robb and Adam Maas have pointed out.
> Publishers' greed, in other words.
>
> People have to be able to back up electronic books somehow,
> so that they
> can be confident that if they drop, break or otherwise incapacitate
> their reading device, they haven't lost the hundreds of books thay
> bought to store on it.
>
> The real Achilles Heel of the whole enterprise isn't technological it
> is, as usual human.
>
Of course it's human - that's who reads books - but the Achilles heel is
that they are trying to create a market which doesn't exist.
No market exists until someone creates it. If the creators have come up
with something people want, people will buy it.
I don't have a problem with electronic book readers per se; if someone
wants one and thinks it's a good way to buy books, they should be able
to buy them.
What does bother me in this whole discussion is the assumption that I am
some kind of Luddite because I prefer my books in the form of a book.
And the assumption that my desire to have books in that form is somehow
unworthy; such that I cannot have real books because it somehow violates
values of the "marketplace".
It's a stupid argument. If there is a demand for real books, real books
will be available.
To paraphrase ...
They can take my books when they pry them from my cold dead fingers.
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