do you realize what this means?
last week, amazon bought booksurge, a p.o.d. company. yesterday, amazon bought mobipocket, a viewer-app. (franklin, who owned a lot of mobipocket stock, is going to make a couple million bucks from the deal.) do you people here realize what all this means? no, of course you don't. -bowerbird
Bowerbird, I would assume this would mean that they're pushing forward into ebooks. Ebooks that are under copyright. Looks like a good thing though. The more people who have the ability to read ebooks which are under copyright, the more people who can read all ebooks (read: PG ebooks). Project Gutenberg continues pushing forward, amassing more material as said material falls into the public domain. Future books won't need as much effort from us then, since all we'll need to do then is provide server space (they'll already be in electronic format). In the end, PG goes from being an organization converting physical books to electronics ones into an organization that ensures the duration of Copyright remains a sane amount (not that it's sane currently, but you get the picture). How is this a bad thing? -brandon Bowerbird@aol.com wrote:
last week, amazon bought booksurge, a p.o.d. company.
yesterday, amazon bought mobipocket, a viewer-app. (franklin, who owned a lot of mobipocket stock, is going to make a couple million bucks from the deal.)
do you people here realize what all this means?
no, of course you don't.
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From: Bowerbird@aol.com
do you people here realize what all this means?
no, of course you don't.
Why are you still here, if you hate us all so much and hold us in such contempt? I've lost count of the times you've quit the list forever to go do it right somewhere else. Whatever happened to that? Dave Doty
At 02:09 AM 4/15/2005, you wrote: <snip>
do you people here realize what all this means?
no, of course you don't.
No! Of course we don't! But I'm sure we can look forward to a long string of randomly punctuated messages where you tell us how completely stupid we are, followed by several messages which say something along the lines of, "I've had enough of this list. I'm going to unsubscribe soon." Proceeding this will come one or more ads for your blog, followed by some more "no really, I'm leaving this time, really!" messages. Then, finally, if we're extremely lucky, we'll get about 60 days of peace until you come back and start the whole thing over again. Those of you who are new to this list might think I'm exaggerating. Just stick around for a few weeks, you'll see that I'm not. Aaron Cannon -- E-mail: cannona@fireantproductions.com Skype: cannona MSN Messenger: cannona@hotmail.com (Do not send E-mail to the hotmail address.)
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