Put Not Your Faith In Ebook Readers

Cory Doctorow: “As fierce as hardware manufacturing competition runs, it still creates a paradoxical abundance: an abundance of platforms that can run e-book-reading software. If you’re someone with a smarts, passion and vision, you can easily source some hackers to bang up an e-book business to run on a PC, phone, or other handheld (note that in the world of phones and handhelds, a substantial portion of the manufacturers take pains to stop you from running software on their devices, as Apple did with the iPhone, but it’s not illegal to defeat these measures and plenty of people do so).”

March 5, 2008 by Uncategorized 1

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  1. leo says:
    March 8, 2008 at 5:26 pm

    It’s not about Technology, It’s about Common Sense
    A device from a company heavily invested in media ownership or sales is just never going to fly. This isn’t a matter of technology but of common sense.

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