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Originally Posted by Elfwreck
It might not be illegal. One of the fascinating bits of commentary in the recent Sony v Tenenbaum ruling was the judge saying: (Bolding added.) So we've got a ruling where a judge said, if there's no digital version available, it might be okay to make & distribute one. Rowling's said she never intends to allow ebooks--she's declined to exploit that market, and that doesn't give her the right to prevent it.
From the Gone With the Wind/The Wind Done Gone case, Marcus' concurring opinion: |
This is great. I will be traveling soon, and I have a lot of work to do which involves big, heavy dictionaries. It is much too impractical to carry them along with me.
That said, I'm surprised that no one seems to be marketing e-book readers specifically to children (as far as I've been able to see). I think that e-book readers certainly DO have the potential to be "cool gadgets" for kids - I sure would have loved to have one as a kid. My 8 year old niece has been begging various family members for a reader after I bought mine. I really think that she might like a smaller reader, say the Sony pocket edition, but I am concerned about a lack of age appropriate reading material available for purchase.