Kindle’s mock trial concerns

[Charth]

The Kindle is one of the many ebooks that come from overseas and, in the form of a flat screen a few grams, potentially offers the equivalent of the Library of Babel. Inevitably, the media assayed radio-TV as one of the next quarrel of the ancients and the moderns, supporters of the 'good old paper "and fanatics modern one. But while some rave about the simplicity of a book order via a wireless network without subscription" and explained that about $400 dedicated electronics is a sacred economy compared to traditional media.

[Sonic]

Some book publishers, first of all, who see the end of their business is fast with the dematerialization of their productions. While it is true that no technology does not replace completely another, it is rare for a traditional medium does not allow a few feathers at each technological revolution. The clipboard did not disappear with the birth of radio, which did not die at the hands of television, which does not perish with the advent of the Internet or IP-TV but the size the cake is more or less the same, the number of guests continues to grow, the share thus become smaller.

[Deepest BLUE]

Incidentally, with the generalization of ebooks will also ask the piracy problem. Forgiveness of counterfeiting. And this in a way that probably more prevalent in the world of music publishing. For even if a small proportion of the population will continue to buy at full price Jules Verne classic school and at the price of platinum, the proportion of distribution channels "free of rights" will increase. If we can invoke a musical composition by Bach (JS and JC, no PDQ) is subservient to the demands of certain "rights holders", ie the interpreters of the work, the pretense evaporates in the case things printed.

[CAILYN]

The keyboard player or couple "scanner / OCR" can not seriously be considered as an interpreter, especially if the original used in the automatic entry date of the nineteenth century. with the widespread use of digitized works, the evaporation of a retirement situation so far retained their paper editions. It may be also very interesting to see if the prosecution or any High Authority will risk ridicule to pursue so-called "fakers" who would openly traded in "peer to peer" the complete works.

[Dakshayani]

Another aspect of the equation Kindle, on very diverse sources. There can be no true success of electronic books without a minimum of standardization-or-unification mechanisms supply content, file formats, networks of resale. Such detail usually conflicting with a real diversity. The example of what is happening in the field of musical variety shows how dematerialization is often synonymous with mass, concentration and ultimately, loss and formatting of the offer.

[xanix]

How long will it take for small publishers, the heirs of the traditional publishing are as marginalized as for now, Amazon uses a proprietary format, supposedly to prevent piracy, but actually is a way to increase sales of terminals. For the real difference between an ebook and a real book is that the latter is ready, offers, trades. The purchase of 3 or 4 books can simultaneously meet three or four different people in a family. This is not the case of the ebook, as concentrated in a single point of reading all the content acquired. It is a priori not the case because the Kindle uses a proprietary format. Sony has understood, that hopes to carve out a place with great blows of "open format