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Originally Posted by manchuia
Data would be the result of interaction with the software. As the the interaction with a book is reading it, the memory is the data (or result of interaction). Your Mobi.. analogy is also true. Your interaction with the conversion tool creates a data, a .prc file. But then the file becomes software as you interact with it and get new data (memory).
If you are defining data solely as the last bit created by a computer, then you have even less ground as every bit requires specific software to interpret it for us. As such anything with a file extension has a possible limitation (one day there will not be software to interpret the bits) and you are not necessarily griping about the file format but the ability for there to be a usable software interpreter (which again, the Kindle basically is and is the situation Amazon created for you to interpret its file format). You use notepad for .txt .. think of this as a $360 note pad  |
And the interaction with a picture is seeing it. So ... for me, the analogy still doesn't work.
If I write a book in Wordperfect, since Wordperfect is the program and the result of my interaction with it is a book. Does that book now become data?? No matter what format I put it into?
Then, I still hold that an ebook is data.