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I'm annoyed when people say ebooks (look less silly without the "-" :) are DRM. Yes most of them are, but all my ebooks are DRM free, e.g. from gutenberg.org and many other places.
sazius at 2014-04-04T19:31:06Z
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@Blaise Alleyne That's actually a good point. The experience does change a lot more in the ebook case than in the other modalities.
sazius at 2014-04-04T20:02:05Z
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Hm, not sure about that. The distinction seems important enough in enough contexts to justify it. Same as email vs mail... Ebooks have many characteristics that books don't have.
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>> Karl Fogel:
“They're just books, people. Books!”
But a CD is not the same as a casette tape, or a vinyl disc.
We don't call any of those "music" or "e-music", we call them by the specific name of the medium.
A book is not the same as a file on an "Electronic book reader".