IP: RE: re Disappearing eBooks - but not inmates?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> From: "Bob Frankston" <RMFx18 () Bobf Frankston com>
> To: <farber () cis upenn edu>
> Subject: RE: re Disappearing eBooks - but not inmates?
> Date: Tue, 7 Aug 2001 21:36:22 -0400
>
> The real problem is IP, not Interesting People , and no, not the
> Internet Protocol. It's Intellectual Property.
>
> I can sympathize with the concern over price but books aren't sold at
> cost. The real problems are points #2 and #3 -- you have few rights. In
> fact, you often can't read it without having to establish your
> credentials and you may not have any rights to loan or transfer
> ownership. And you may wind up in jail for trying!
>
> E-books are like films in the days of fixed cameras before people
> started to move the cameras and cut and paste. We already have the
> e-publishing with HTML and the Web. The real frustration is not that
> e-books are problematic, it's that we don't have a better way to incent
> authors than to keep control over the IP by binding it to wood pulp
> simply to make it hard to copy. But, at least, we can transfer ownership
> or repurpose it on a cold New England night.
>
> Bob Frankston
> http://www.Frankston.com
>
>
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> Subject: IP: re Disappearing eBooks - but not inmates?
>
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>
> > Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2001 15:59:30 -0400
> > To: farber () cis upenn edu
> > From: "James H. Morris" <james.morris () cmu edu>
> > Subject: Re: IP: Disappearing eBooks - but not inmates?
> >
> >
> >
> > If Amazon continues it's pricing policy eBooks will disappear on their
> > own. 1. They cost the same as a hardback. 2. You can't print them.
> > 3. You can't "return" them, unlike all other Amazon products.
> >
> > James H. Morris
> > Dean, School of Computer Science
> > 412 609-5000
> > http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~jhm
>
>
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