It is quite obvious that many people view both Bowerbird's and Mr. Rothman's comments as attacks, even Bowerbird and Mr. Rothman, though rarely would the mention include self-reflection on this matter. Honey versus vinegar? The real question is whether either of them, or the issues they promote, bring any real advances to the world of eBooks. On Mon, 22 May 2006 Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
david said:
You gratuitously attacked OpenReader out of the blue.
no, i didn't.
but i'm sure you'd like to spin it that way.
what i said was that you were making a big deal about "putting a blog inside an e-book", when that is actually a somewhat trivial thing to do.
look, i've inserted a blog inside of this e-mail:
http://www.buzzmachine.com/index.php/2006/05/19/the-book-is-dead-long-live-t...
-bowerbird