Look, Ma–No DRM! Great news about Springer e-book effort
People at Springer Verlag must be on a good deeds streak. First they’re helping out Katrina relief efforts through donations of e-book services for New Orleans college libraries. Now we learn that Springer’s new e-book system does not come with DRM.
Draconian DRM, of course, is to the e-book industry what Katrina was to Gulf Coast.
(More details from Andrew Pace and Sarah Houghton’s LibrarianInBlack.net)
July 14th, 2006 at 6:46 am
[See note at end.] Keep it up Springer. So humanity still prevails, hence prooved. And i felt good to know that you people are of such a kind and sympathetic disposition. As everybody has to pay for the bad deeds likewise one gets the fruits of good ones too. And you too ‘ll surely.
[To TeleBlog readers: This is an example of the crap I get from spammers who don't give a squat about e-books. A bot or human or a cyborg dreams up stupid remarks like the one above. Hint: Scott is with a site with the word "blood pressure" in the name. - David]
July 14th, 2006 at 7:35 am
For a moment there I thought pigs would surely fly. But then I noticed that Springer Verlag is a different entity from Axel Springer.
(Axel Springer is another German publisher, one whose publications actually make Fox News look fair and balanced.)
July 14th, 2006 at 7:57 am
Another well-deserved “Thanks, Branko!” I’ve changed the copy so no one will bother looking up in the sky for those flying pigs. David
July 14th, 2006 at 11:34 am
Hm? I would have had the Alex Springer association nevertheless.
I just did not know there were two German publishers called Springer.