book-ownership love

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  • If Macmillan wants to flex its muscle on an issue of substance and moment, an issue that will make it the hero of readers and writers and booksellers everywhere, it can demand that Amazon, Apple, B&N, and all the other ebook readers allow for interoperability and remove contracts that undo centuries 'worth of book-ownership norms.

    Cafe con Leche XML News and Resources Boing Boing 2010

  • As for Macmillan, as Cory Doctorow notes on the BoingBoing blog, it wants to charge higher prices for e-books instead of fighting Amazon over an issue that matters far more for the future of publishing such as demanding "that Amazon, Apple, B&N, and all the other e-book readers allow for interoperability and remove contracts that undo centuries 'worth of book-ownership norms".

    BBC News | Technology | World Edition 2010

  • The Feminine Mystique is a violation of book-ownership: criminal, but nothing to get into therapy over.

    AFF Doublethink Online Helen Rittelmeyer 2008

  • The Feminine Mystique is a violation of book-ownership: criminal, but nothing to get into therapy over.

    AFF Doublethink Online 2008

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