Thread: NPR Planet Money - The E-Book Wars
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Old 01-09-2023, 06:47 PM   #7
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Originally Posted by ZodWallop View Post
Thanks man. It was an interesting listen. No new news, really. But it was nice to hear firsthand from a librarian and the head of Macmillan.
NPR will probably alway scoop mobileread on the deaths of major authors, but news and in depth discussions related to ebooks will always best be sought on mobileread.

I'm just glad to see attempts at a bit of depth in the somewhat mainstream.

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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
The ableist rant about how it was better when people were forced to make trips to the library to borrow physical books is unattractive.
I was disappointed that it started out by expressing surprise that any sort of public library is legal. They also seem to buy into the notion adding (physical!) friction to the process makes it more "fair" even though its severity varies a lot from person to person.

Cass R. Sunstein has a 41 page "essay" Sludge and Ordeals which, while very good, is a bit of sluge itself.
https://dlj.law.duke.edu/article/slu...in-vol68-iss8/
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