A personal jet-pack for the 21st century

[james_davis_nicoll]

Shorter John Siracusa: e-books' coming domination of publishing is inevitable, do you hear me? Inevitable!

Nicked from Charles Stross, who pretty much would have to be more positive about e-books than I am.

Comments

[mmegaera.livejournal.com]

You're missing most of my points, but thanks for the suggestion.

[bluetyson.livejournal.com]

No, just that I agreed with them mostly, DRM, not buying ovcerpriced unproven new tech, etc., except for I don't care about the used bookstore/resale thing, apart from liking used bookshops - but I'd rather have electronic access to huge numbers of books I'd never get otherwise than have used bookshops.

[(Anonymous)]

Given I can't get a lot of out-of-print musical recordings and the whole iTunes thing has put a huge dent in the used CD stores (where I find the weirdest but coolest stuff along with the out-of-print stuff), I'd rather have the used bookstores than electronic access because anything in copyright yet out-of-print is not likely to be available.