Comments on: Books: The Next Chapter by Peter Osnos http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/books-the-next-chapter-by-peter-osnos/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Tue, 14 Feb 2012 21:55:20 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Steve Jordan http://www.teleread.com/paul-biba/books-the-next-chapter-by-peter-osnos/comment-page-1/#comment-1122110 Steve Jordan Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:11:33 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/?p=26561#comment-1122110 Overall, well-put. It's interesting that Osnos didn't even mention DRM, not as a bone of contention, a tool to be honed or discarded, or a factor in the development of e-books. But then, he's not a bookseller, so the issues of theft and loss may not be high on his list of priorities. (Maybe if he had lost his Kindle copies of <em>Animal Farm</em> and <em>1984</em>, he'd have devoted more thought to the subject...) One thing I found funny is singling out Amazon, B&N, Google and Apple, and calling the market "crowded." Like others, recognizes recent publicized efforts, but he doesn't seem to recognize the potential of the myriad of existing non-dedicated devices to be part of the e-book's future. To his credit, though, he does note that a standardized format is key to that future. Overall, well-put. It’s interesting that Osnos didn’t even mention DRM, not as a bone of contention, a tool to be honed or discarded, or a factor in the development of e-books. But then, he’s not a bookseller, so the issues of theft and loss may not be high on his list of priorities. (Maybe if he had lost his Kindle copies of Animal Farm and 1984, he’d have devoted more thought to the subject…)

One thing I found funny is singling out Amazon, B&N, Google and Apple, and calling the market “crowded.” Like others, recognizes recent publicized efforts, but he doesn’t seem to recognize the potential of the myriad of existing non-dedicated devices to be part of the e-book’s future. To his credit, though, he does note that a standardized format is key to that future.

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