Thread: Jonathan Franzen: e-books are damaging society
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Old 01-30-2012, 03:40 AM   #2
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“I think, for serious readers, a sense of permanence has always been part of the experience. Everything else in your life is fluid, but here is this text that doesn’t change. Will there still be readers 50 years from now who feel that way?"

Your objection ebooks is misplaced, there is nothing impermanent about the open epub standard, it can be easily supported until the end of time.

No, the problem lies in DRM encrypted ebooks that are tied to devices and services to which you need to have a long term loyalty to lest you hard earned investment in a 'library' disappear forever into the ether.

I thoroughly agree that books must remain a product which I own rather than a service that i have temporarily contracted, and were this not possible with ebooks I would not buy them.

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