Bookstores [Was: Re: Going OT [Was: Re: Replacing PBXes with Open Source]]

[Derek Martin]

On Mon, Aug 30, 2004 at 01:21:55PM -0400, Michael Costolo wrote:
> I don't ever see myself curling up in bed with my laptop.   And the
> paperless office has yet to be realized.  Methinks if there is a way
> to make a buck with dead tree versions, someone will be doing it.

Ditto.  I don't like e-books.  I don't read e-books.  And, I won't
read e-books, at least until I have no other choice.  And maybe not
even then.

Part of the reason is a general distaste for reading materials on a
computer when paper alternatives exist.  Another part is the more
political issue of licensing e-books such that only one user can use
them on one computer, as has been discussed on Slashdot (I believe) in
the past, in regards to college e-texts, IIRC.

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