"Over time universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." G. Orwell
Again ebook, digital publishing industry is still nascent. I'll be back on the blog after a break due to work commitments with a brief reflection, hounded by the excellent article by Federico Bona on the January issue of Jack, entitled "Prohibited crossings." Now, although it can feel that Jungian synchronicity are always around the corner, I find it strange however that my own intuition permeate the minds of many other commentators in the field of 'digital publishing .
I refer in particular to the way it was designed in our country ebook system, planning is an excellent showcase of Italian-style branding for most publishers, but at the same time seems tailored to make life impossible for buyers of e-books.
How not to be stunned in front of the exotic systems of DRM that are usually applied to the ebook, the more famous of Adobe up to that achieved by some kind of software houses eastern Europe, which actually seem to have the sole purpose of making the extremely complex life honest buyer and a simple search on a peer to peer infinite lists highlights of the ePub ebook format without any protection.
wonder why his eyes always have to go to the few independent publishing houses (a large Publisher applause at Bruno, who has made the choice very brave to release their ebook from any protection, demonstrating its honesty and customer focus). At the same time, it's almost disconcerting to note how things work differently overseas.
In the U.S., when you decide to apply a drm, hardware compatibility is guaranteed by the property distribution: so happens that those who buy a ebook from Amazon must certainly not worry about downloading some kind of DRM compatibility to read on your Kindle, on your PC, Mac, or on the tablet on the iPad.
And now we come to the center point of the matter. Since the e-book has already proven to be an overseas business that works and the fact that many publishers want to retain their traditional distribution system as long as possible, why not create a ' architecture as complex as to make it around all'ebook unusable (while also neutralizing the foreign competitors who intend to land on our territory or the publishers who have called, emerging with the decision on the digital market)?
A masterpiece to worthy of Orson Welles' F for Fake best, if not for one small detail: the era of and prosumer 's collaborative enterprise (Fabris), readers are no longer accustomed to follow an exclusively market-oriented ... said keywords, for once to stay with the match in hand may not be readers. And a good player, I can not necessarily say that the thing I regret.
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