TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
May 31st, 2004

E-book biz could learn from voting machine fiasco

By

Think proprietary DRM is the solution for the e-book business? Consider all the grief arising from the closed code that Diebold has used in its voting machines. In A Really Open Election in the New York Times, writer Clive Thompson argues for open code that could be scrutinized in a public way. Time for an Open Reader approach for e-books?

(Via Boing Boing.)

Digg us! Slashdot us! Share the news.
  • Digg
  • Slashdot
  • del.icio.us
  • Reddit
  • TailRank
  • StumbleUpon
  • Technorati
  • Netvouz
  • YahooMyWeb
Posted in Uncategorized or off-topic |

This entry was posted on Monday, May 31st, 2004 at 12:27 pm and is filed under Uncategorized or off-topic. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

Leave a Reply

Subscribe without commenting