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Sigh why does the Internet mean that any moron with 10mins at his disposal can spout off and people care.
Here's a re-rebuttal
1. It follows from human nature. People tend to stick with things they are familiar with. Nowadays that means reading on electronic devices. Thus, by making ebooks available in electronic form, you make it easier for people to read.
2. The manufacture of one electronic device to read several hundred e-documents as opposed to paper copies of several 100 documents, is a boon for the environment. And obviously, in the future we will read ebooks on multifunction devices.
3. Even assuming that preserving digital information is as hard as preserving printouts, the availability of search in digital information makes the preserved archives infinitely more useful.
7. This guy seems to be desperate to find things to criticize.
14. The point is that they are free for the library as well. Not just for the end-user. The cost of maintaining infinite copies of a book in perpetuity is much lower for ebooks than pbooks.
21. Obviously not him.
27. Those books were banned and when the means of production and distribution of information is centralized (e.g. in printing presses) it makes it much easier to censor information.
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