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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."
Maybe you need a browser that handles text files better, my friend...because Safari wraps it just fine. Hardly "insightful" of you to point out a bug in your own browser; after all, it would word-wrap a big long string of HTML, now wouldn't it?
On a side-note, it's better than those websites which insist on using a quarter of your screen because the designer's too stupid to make a layout that works at any screen width....
drop my Zaurus or laptop and I'll cry, drop my book and I'll just pick it back up
No kiddin', really? If I drop a $20 calculator, I'm not going to be upset much either...but if I drop my HP48GX(hasn't been made in years, cost a couple hundred $), I'm gonna be pissed. Similarly, if I had a rare book that was leather-bound, gilded, etc...and then went and spilled something on it...it'd be even worse.
Please help metamoderate.
Has anyone tried the books in itunes? I was never a big fan of e-books on the PC or the Ipaq/handheld but I always liked Audio books. There was a time when one of my family members lost their sight for half a year and we had a bunch, so I gave them a try and really liked them.
Has anyone tried them yet and what's your experience?