By: Matthew
So this device will give readers a way to digitize their libraries without having to buy new digital copies, and probably encourage those same people to buy eBook readers and stimulate that economy?...
View ArticleBy: Jack
1. We’ve had scanners for a long time. Some of us have even gotten pretty good at flipping the pages for ourselves. 2. OCR is the real problem. Take a look at some of Amazon or Google’s eBooks that are...
View ArticleBy: Anonymous
Oh no consumer creating things! This is going to be sued into the ground by the world’s business men who feel only those they pay are allowed to be creative and produce “culture”. You don’t need OCR....
View ArticleBy: Seth
This device is perfect. I have a number of collections of rare academic journals that are highly sought after. Now I can finally share my archive. This isn’t about “piracy”. It’s about finally getting...
View ArticleBy: dave
Seth, will you compensate the authors/journals/publishers of out-of-print books? Or do you believe that because the authors of those books aren’t being paid now (due to being out of print) that they...
View ArticleBy: dave is a winker
Dave, well done. Once again a apologist standing up for bug corporations and copyright. Copyright was introduced to protect authors, but is now abused by big corporations. The reason they are out of...
View ArticleBy: Barry
There’s no reason for publishers, or even authors, to fear this more than existing technology. Books can already be copied or scanned, and I can’t see how this will make it easier to do so. Certainly,...
View ArticleBy: Sean Cranbury
The traditional means of controlling the spread of information (or, egad, content) and also ‘monetizing’ parcels of information – books, songs, magazines, etc… – has been forever altered and we all...
View ArticleBy: Barry
Sean, why are you lambasting people in publishing for the supposed “fear gong” of two articles? Neither of these articles shows anyone in publishing panicking. I’m certainly not panicking, as per my...
View ArticleBy: Sean Cranbury
Hi Barry Agree that Carolyn Wood offers a sensible response. The ‘fear gong’ appears in the first sentence of the Quill piece above: Notably: “…ION Audio introduced a device that should strike fear in...
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