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One thing nobody has considered: EMP (I know this is almost off topic, but it adds to the evils of our ebooks.) A few EMP bombs, as described in "One Second After" by William Forstchen could wipe out all the ebooks in the USA. It would be difficult to rebuild after an attack that took out all our books.
With DRM servers, it would only require hacking a dozen server systems world wide to crash most ebooks. Amazon, B&N, Sony, etc. A cyber-attack could render most books in the western world unradable. Am I the only one who was screwed when Lotus declared bankruptcy, and shut down their servers so nobody could reinstall 1-2-3?
OTOH, it would be great while rebuilding to have every book (over a certain age) ever printed in a single hand-held device. That's been my goal for many years. Maybe we can even get those who write users manuals and service manuals to agree on a format, add a wiki section (so it's understandable) and open them all up to dowloading. Then, we could add in product and service manuals to our TEOTWAKI ebook reader.
Andy
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