Thread: Give a Sony Reader to Jessica Rowling and help Médecins Sans Frontières
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Old 02-11-2007, 02:53 PM   #25
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That's right, I remember it now. No ability to read DRM books, which wouldn't stop me from using it, but defeats the purpose of sending them a reader loaded with books by her competitors. (I don't think this is the time to make the anti-DRM push.)

Re Rowling taking advantage of publicity, she's given quite a bit of money to charities and has donated two small books to Comic Relief. I'm not sure what else she might reasonably do to compensate for the publicity, but I guess we just differ on this.

We have very little to go on re: Rowling's full opinion about eBook technology. I myself doubt she's ever seen a device designed specificially as a reader-- few people have. I think that makes it rather hard to predict how she'd react to one. Perhaps this effort to change her opinion would be completely wasted, in which case at least it would probably raise some money for a good cause (MSF). I'm more optimistic.
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