Please explain

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why anyone would think that this product is a good idea.

Comments

[sclerotic-rings.livejournal.com]

Because there's always some technoweenie who can't conceive of anything that can't be "improved" with a lot of useless technology? Because you have a lot of book, magazine, and newspaper publishers who will have to go back to their original professions of asking "Business, mister?" down on the docks if they aren't somehow able to get more synergy with wildly inappropriate media acquisitions? Because you'll have dozens of Cory Doctorow/Bruce Sterling wannabes who will crow about how an invention such as this will somehow jumpstart the "but we'll make it up in volume" model of electronic publishing? Because some ideas are so stupid that you need a bank of Ph.Ds to make them happen? You got me, man.