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Also from the Department, how much do you want to bet the "books" won't be transferable or resalable?

(Kinda reminds me of the Book of Job--Satan makes a bet with God. It's not real bright to make a bet with someone who knows the future!)

But I digress ...

Electronic-only versions will allow publishers to constantly update, so even if DRM does get cracked, the cracked version will be Introduction to Whatever--Fall 2006 and the professor will be requiring at least the Summer 2007 edition.

And also from the Department ... what about EC and US antitrust laws? Publishers certainly are not going to support ten different electronic versions, one for each company that wants to publish a reader.

There is also one other thing not mentioned -- humans learn to process information in a certain way and that is the way that person "thinks". I'm a lawyer. I learned to draft documents on a wordprocessor. I have tried drafting on paper and I just can't do it. I know older lawyers who can type at a good rate but they learned to draft with a legal pad. They tell me they can't draft directly to a computer ... "My mind just doesn't work that way." (In that regard see Marshall McLuhan's book The Medium is the Massage.) I spend a good part of every day doing computerized research, but I still often don't notice a particular thing until I see the paper version. Maybe 50-100 years from now people will be used to processing information primary from a single partial-page screen, but most people miss a lot if it's not in hardcopy.

Posted by: Rick_R   Posted on: 05/04/09  (Edited: 05/04/2009 @ 10:07) You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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