Doctorow: Ebooks Neither E Nor Books

xanderwilson writes "Author Cory Doctorow has released his paper/speech for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference this year into the public domain. A very interesting read about his experience with Magic Kingdom (which he is soon re-releasing under a more lenient Creative Commons license), the failure of e-books, and filesharing as a tool for creators."

Comments

Re:Posting article for the sake of word wrap

[Original AIDS Monkey]

Thanks for taking an unreadable format and making it even more unreadable.

Re:This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

[TechBCEternity]

see you're missing the point

the article is free but the word wrapping is offered as a premium service.

Re:This guy doesn't know what he's talking about.

[kfg]

Indeed, I just cut and pasted it into KWrite and it looks great.

Then I really got into the spirit of the thing:

I printed it and read it on paper.

KFG

Cory's on a signing tour!

[Mr. Darl McBride]

I read that Cory's coming to town soon -- he's having signings all over the country to celebrate his newest book.

Remember to bring your public key and a couple forms of ID!

Re:REALLY hi-res... and also the Mac

[Anaphiel]

...my eyes instantly started tearing up.

Funny, that happens to me every time I have to use a PC too.

Re:Word wrap?

[orthogonal]

I'm the exact opposite. Besides being able to set the font nice and big, the main thing I like is text-to-speech software. I set the speed to about 450wps and comfortably read along.... My book consumption has gone from less than one per year, to about 3-4 a week.

450 words per second??? I had no idea Alvin & the Chipmunks had produced so many audio-books.

And despite 450 words per second, you're still only reading 3-4 a week?

Re:Word wrap?

[etLux]

Word wrap? The convenience of readability? Good Pluto's rectum-fired ghost, man, is that all you're concerned over? Let's see you wrap fish or line the litter box with an e-book... To me, these issues are far, far more critical.