BOOK: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
The Luddite Fool, J.K. Rowling is! Thanks to David Rothman, a Virginia-based e-book advocate and author who runs the TeleRead digital libraries project (quoted from a recent article from Wired). I firmly believe that she is. Why? Although, I've read Potter books before, I'm not going to buy and carry that humongous book. I collect books, but not hard bound nor paperback - I go for ebooks. Ebooks are more practical in terms of size and portability. Convenience for the consumer is a must on this technology driven times. Its safe to say that J.K. Rowling and party are just neglecting this side of the market. They're also relating the techno-savvy ebook lovers as supporters of piracy. I believe it would take a Steve Jobs to convince those ignorant and misinformed book publishers.
While reading directly from her site, I got humored by this statement:
"You should NEVER trust any Harry Potter e-books offered for download from the internet or on P2P/file-trading networks. Setting aside the fact that these books are illegal (there are no authorised HP e-books to date), they may infect your computer with viruses, leave you vulnerable to the dangers of hacking and/or credit card fraud and may also contain content that has nothing to do with Harry Potter, to say the least."
Yeah right! Who is she fooling in the first place? The MS Word part might contain malicious codes, but the other formats - well, never heard of. Not that I'm condoning nor promoting piracy but this is ridiculous! His lawyer (Neil Blair) was quoted saying "We want to prevent piracy for many reasons, financial being the very last one of those...". Who are you kidding people? You're always aiming for profits or else you'll be out of business!
Now let's talk about DRM (short for Digital Rights Management) and piracy. You use DRM to combat piracy (there are plenty of mention-worthy DRM for ebooks that are consumer friendly). If you say that ebooks are prone to piracy, well who can stop one buying a tree book and lending it out to his/her friends for free? Isn't that plain same?
I'm here to promote ebooks and the technology behind it. It gives the necessary portability and convenience to the consumer (that an ordinary tree book could not). This is not to mention that you'll save trees and doing the environment a favor. And lastly, I've got one word for Ms. Rowling - eReader!
For the full interesting article, you can read it here.
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P.S. Oh while you're at it, you might want to consider giving J.K. Rowling a copy of these. Open your eyes woman!
22.7.05 06:30
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(26.7.05 04:26) Bwahahahaha! What can you expect from these Brits?! They avoid technology like a plague! Have you seen the PAL/SECAM TV sets? Ewww! but their cars I like! They still suck with computer technology. |
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