To which I add that you can loan your physical book or give it away, and no publisher has anything to say about it. And we want people without lots of discretionary income to still be able to read, whether it's to educate themselves generally or improve themselves professionally.
Shirley
-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Degan <DennyD1@verizon.net>
To: Avid-L2 <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sat, Jul 28, 2012 6:51 am
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] New edition of Steve Cohen's book
On Jul 27, 2012, at 3:57 PM, Steve Hullfish wrote:
> I forwarded this to Steve Cohen. We'll see if he can figure this
out with Amazon. It seems crazy that you can't keep two versions of a
book you own.
I say:
Ah, but that's where you missed a small detail, Steve. Downloaded e-
books are not owned by the downloader. It's a license, just like any
software. This a big bone of contention for readers between REAL
books (that you can physically own) and e-books, which are just files
on an e-reader. It's a major change in the way we read books and many
are not happy about it.
In a hundred years when your e-reader can no longer function
(actually, I'm sure it will be sooner), your e-books will be useless.
In a hundred years, your ACTUAL book will continue to be readable.
And no publisher will be able to take it away from you.
Dennis Degan, Video Editor-Consultant-Knowledge Bank
NBC Today Show, New York
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