Monday, April 22, 2002

eBooks

E-Books: An Idea Whose Time Hasn't Come. So far, demand for reading the texts of books on computer screens has been tepid at best. By David D. Kirkpatrick. [New York Times: Arts]

This The New York Times article is really about illegal software monopoly Microsoft, Inc.'s formation of a lobbying front, misleadingly titled, "The International eBook Association".

I don't know what's worse—that the Times elected to bury the story's only significant datum under paragraphs of twaddle about nobody caring about eBooks anyway, thereby intimating: —so it doesn't really matter that the monopolist Microsoft now pretends to represent the interests of electronic book publishers; or the fact of Micosoft's imposture.

 |  | Nº111 Posted: Monday, April 22, 2002 3:17:59 PM. Words: 113.

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