[free-sklyarov] Re: [wwwac] E-books solving a problem consumers don't have (fwd)

[alfee cube]

jay,

as an aside:

i tried to figure out amazon's sales ranking and found
it impossible, due to lack of information concerning
the algorithm - but one thing became clear, it is
related to much more than sales.

the more articles i read, like this, the sillier DMCA
sounds. it seems to be boiling down to a hasty,
unreasoned, and offensive digital grab by special
interests. in the time honored and american fashion of
"screw you jack, i got mine"!  

i'm reminded of the monkey who puts his hand through a
knot hole to grab some "goodies", only to be clubbed
to death, because he will not loosen his grip long
enough to withdraw his hand and retreat!

i suspect so will go some of the contests over the
DMCA?
 
--- Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 18:08:03 -0400 (EDT)
> From: Jay Sulzberger <jays at panix.com>
> To: Bill Volk <bvolk at inetworld.net>
> Cc: List Web405 <web405 at southland.net>, wwwac list
> <wwwac at lists.wwwac.org>
> Subject: Re: [wwwac] E-books solving a problem
> consumers don't have
> 
> 
> On Fri, 10 Aug 2001, Bill Volk wrote:
> 
> >   Good article...
> >
> >
>
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0108090012aug09.story?c
> > oll=chi%2Dleisure%2Dhed
> >
> > So what do you all think?  Can e-Books make it?
> >
> > I can remember that everyone thought PDA's were a
> bad idea after the Newton
> > bombed....  maybe that's the issue here ...
> 
> Of course, books available world wide on the net at
> extraordinarily low
> cost will be a smash success.  Already in physics
> and mathematics the
> process of moving to the net is well advanced.  The
> old and now much too
> costly means of aggregating and distributing
> scholarly works, that is, the
> traditional journal only distributed in ink on paper
> form, cannot compete.
> 
> http://xxx.lanl.gov
> http://front.math.ucdavis.edu
>
http://www.news.cornell.edu/releases/July01/ginsparg.archive.ws.html
> http://arXiv.org/blurb/pg01unesco.html
> http://www.baen.com/library/home.htm
>
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/07/30/opinion/30LESS.html
>
http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2001/08/07/lessig.html
> http://www.freesklyarov.org
> http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu
> http://www.eff.org
> 
> oo--JS.
> 
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