Everything Old Is Unavailable Again: How Copyright Has Ebooks Operating In The 1800s

Posted by BernardSwiss on Apr 7, 2014 3:46 AM EDT
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Nothing sucks more than a great new technology with old-world thinking attached to it. Such has been the case with ebooks, unfortunately, with antiquated views on DRM, pricing, and storefront protectionism resulting in pissed off customers and libraries hollering from the nearest rooftop. What we're left with is a platform that could do much to spread knowledge and the practice of reading among entire populations being stifled by those that still think the world should operate based on analog philosophies.

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