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Obvious...
"But tell me why isn't every book that's on sale now
available in digital format? It's quite obvious why."

Yup, dead easy - people prefer to read hardcopy books
rather than electronic books. I produce electronic
documents all day long, yet everyone I send them to prints
them out, scribbles on them and gives them back.

Now why do you suppose they do that, when they have a
copy of the digital original to start with? And they have a
word processor with markup tools to do their
modifications? Yet they prefer to print it out, then markup
with a pen or pencil?

If your point was that people would pirate books if they
were provided in digital form, then your point was poorly
made. It also is not supported by facts, since anyone can
photocopy the original into monochrome TIFF and have a
high-quality image of the book in a small digital format,
perfect for electronic copies.

Yet no one does it - why not?
Posted by: Fred Fredrickson   Posted on: 01/28/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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This is where it is at...  Mike Cox | 01/27/04
No Mike No!  tic swayback | 01/27/04
He's right!  Martin Marvinski | 01/27/04
Ahem...  Martin Marvinski | 01/27/04
Symphony! Wasn't that an integrated office package?  IT_User | 01/27/04
Symphony is the code name.  ctk76 | 01/27/04
Yeah, right!  rdwhitti | 01/27/04
not an issue for me  dg mh | 01/27/04
sharing DVDs  Joe Blow_z | 01/27/04
not quite!  dg mh | 01/27/04
Fair Use  tic swayback | 01/27/04
Think so?  NoB$ | 01/28/04
Can I borrow that last episode of friends?....  el1jones | 01/27/04
why not a windows add on?  dg mh | 01/27/04
Not really a new OS  ShadeTree | 01/27/04
How Apple-like of them  tic swayback | 01/27/04
ABSOLUTELY WRONG!!!!!!!!!!  Heatlesssun | 01/27/04
Oh, think about it...  Martin Marvinski | 01/27/04
Did think about it....  Heatlesssun | 01/27/04
This is a good direction for many users  bhafner | 01/27/04
Correction: YOU CAN SHARE DVDS!!!!  Heatlesssun | 01/27/04
OK, Microsoft relented (for now)  rdwhitti | 01/27/04
Nothing to do with Microsoft.....  Heatlesssun | 01/27/04
Why?  rdwhitti | 01/27/04
If I got it correctly....  Heatlesssun | 01/27/04
Obvious...  Fred Fredrickson | 01/28/04
Keep your devices separate, and your freedom intact  Xunil_Sierutuf | 01/27/04
(NT) Maybe they should call it Sympathy - - - for the early adopters.  Plain Logic | 01/27/04
Just what we need...Gulag PC's  moiety | 01/28/04
To each there own,  FilledOut | 01/28/04

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