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sea2stars · 03-19-2007, 11:14 PM

I agree that the two belong together. However, the publishing industry will probably fight just as hard as the music industry to keep control of the products/data they offer. Maybe even more so since the publishing world has been fighting for copyright law since the invention of the Gutenberg Press; over 450 years.

I'd love to see a small self-serve kiosk set up in Borders, right next to the Sony Reader kiosk, with access to free and DRM edition ebooks that you could purchase & email. Although, until the price for readers drops significantly, remember when DVD players first came out, I doubt things will change too much.

03-19-2007, 11:14 PM	#6
sea2stars Zealot Posts: 104 Karma: 64 Join Date: Dec 2006 Device: eb1150, Sony Reader	I agree that the two belong together. However, the publishing industry will probably fight just as hard as the music industry to keep control of the products/data they offer. Maybe even more so since the publishing world has been fighting for copyright law since the invention of the Gutenberg Press; over 450 years. I'd love to see a small self-serve kiosk set up in Borders, right next to the Sony Reader kiosk, with access to free and DRM edition ebooks that you could purchase & email. Although, until the price for readers drops significantly, remember when DVD players first came out, I doubt things will change too much.