Just read this
"Starting next Wed, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem"
I do this anyway since I have a lot of free books, but I'm sharing it for those who don't know
"Starting next Wed, February 26th, Amazon isn’t going to let users download the ebooks they’ve purchased, forcing users to keep everything within the corporation’s proprietary ecosystem"
I do this anyway since I have a lot of free books, but I'm sharing it for those who don't know
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One thing I will mention is this. And it's definitely food for thought (as I read this on ZDNET, and is VERY IMPORTANT):
"When companies can change their content on the fly, well, that can change everything....."
"When people were able to keep their own copies of books, they had that instrument of record. But when books are changed on the fly, and we can't see the previous versions anymore, it's possible to rewrite history"
"What if a president decides to sign an executive order to change the name of a body of water? Or what if a president decides that all books referencing his predecessor should be rewritten to describe that predecessor in wildly unflattering terms?"
"Or what if an executive order is given requiring all existing digital books to edit out any mention of, say, slavery or the internment camps of World War II?
This could happen. Today, we still have print materials as instruments of record, even if digital copies are modified..."
"But there may be a time in the future when all of our history is represented solely in digital form. Then, it's entirely possible for regimes to rewrite history to represent a particular perspective, whether that's the way it happened or not"