... In April, in a speech to the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference [1], Bill Gates described the need for what he called "an auxiliary device": "When...
Thomas (NOT Tom) Wolfe, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Neil Simon, Lillian Hellman... Stating...
Bill, As you may know I am doing my dissertation on ebook usage and self efficacy levels. One of my questions covers this. I listed the various ebook devices...
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Michael Hart
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Aug 1, 2005 4:17 pm
I note only one question raised in the previous message was answered, so I have included some of the missing portions below. Personally, I prefer it when the...
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Lee Passey
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Aug 1, 2005 6:14 pm
... Ahh, but passing on a copyright _isn't_ different from passing on a house (or even better it isn't different from passing on a corporate bond; rules for...
I wrote (in much more detail, and longer) that I was interested in a business model that would allow p-book publishers to release their material as e-books,...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
Aug 1, 2005 7:26 pm
... Actually, it would be NICE to see OTHERS doing the upkeep! _I_, for one, would LOVE to see how Steve Jobs and Pixar would handle a...
... Actually, THAT is EXACTLY the statement that should have been made 300 years ago when copyright was being created, and we have the proof. ... 1662, a...
Personally I think that while Shakespeare's language is super ( and for those who want it his mystic depths are impressive) his plots are rubbish - even though...
... Whoa, hold on. You're conflating the names of Mark Madow, the fellow who wrote wyat you quoted, and Chris Meadows, which is me, the fellow what replied to...
'When' is not 'because'. And as far as I know the music companies are not LOSING money, rather they are making less money than they believe they ought to. (So...
... Thanks, Lee, for your several informative messages concerning the legal and philosophical underpinnings of copyright law. Regarding The eBook Community...
Lee, You may have misunderstood my position. I too am arguing that passing on copyright is very similar to passing on physical property. I like your ...
Jon, I had already replied to Lee before I saw this. Promise I will take all further comments to 'copyright-future'. I had already put a summary prepared...
... I think this is a fascinating question, and one to which the whole industry will have to adjust, much as travelling storytellers had to adjust when printed...
James Randi has released his "Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural" as a web site at http://www.randi.org/encyclopedia/....
... says that ... property. ... arguments about ... owned, by ... take ... would you ... A recent Supreme Court decision allows the government to take away ...
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Michael Hart
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Aug 2, 2005 5:01 pm
... Sadly to say, this IS the most commonly held capitalistic business model, and it is the same one that causes people around the world to label our form of...
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Michael Hart
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Aug 2, 2005 5:03 pm
I think I made a typo in the message about using Palms for eBooks last week. I think it says the 2 Palms + the 64M flash cost me under $25, but it was $35. $10...
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Michael Hart
hart@...
Aug 2, 2005 5:03 pm
... I suppose that's why Shakepeare's stories and plots are the most used today, because they are rubbish. As for his language being so impressive, sorry, most...
There's an old line from Horace: "Every old poem is sacred." Perhaps it should be, "Every old remembered poem is sacred." Of course, this is the same guy...
... I am under the impression that Baen is using their giveaway program to promote their p-book sales. Whatever the merits to that model, I am most interested...
... They are also making less money than the interest in the music they produce and distribute would have generated BEFORE the option of sharing arose. They...
Cool, 'preciate the response. Not that I'm advocating piracy, of course, but nice to know that there are places out there to get an electronically readable...
From: "Michael Hart" ... not ... ought ... suggestion is ... complete. ... well ... the ... dollars ... I agree with you, Michael. This was motored by the...
From: "Michael Hart" ... rubbish - ... characterisation ... today, ... He borrowed widely but he often had poor plot development and frequently rushed the...
... They are also gaining money, as people will (or at least used to) download the music, and buy albums if they liked what they heard. During the golden era...
Agree. Look at radio stations & librarys... all allow you to get something for free. ... Or are they making money unless Your contention is not one of those...
... Good point. Perhaps our century's Shakespeare was Hal Wallis, who produced "Little Caesar" (1931), "42nd Street" (1933), "The Adventures of Robin Hood"...
... If the question is 'how can distributors (including publishers) continue to make the same profits they did ten years ago when technology was radically ...
