Comments on: Extra, extra! AP tells of people reading e-books without Kindles

By: Daniel Udsen

Daniel Udsen — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:57:05 +0000

The publishing business and in particular the news syndication businesses hate Project gutenberg or any of the books that allows free books to be put in circulation, they know they are going to loose out in that battle.

The kindle is nicely closed, even free sources get a pricetag on the kindle. and it’s nicely tied to one company you can bully around. they like the kindle they think they can make more money off the kindle then the costly pulb based products. where on the web eveyone is margin trading. some are good at it and can provice quality content but almost noone get there without spending almost ever earned dollar getting there.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 11:51:22 +0000

Joseph: Let’s just hope the courts don’t back up AP, which itself could suffer from restrictions on fair use. As for those “several more words”–get ‘em via our link, post ‘em on your own site, and we’ll sympathetically write you up if AP is actually serious and goes after you, lol. AP just might add up the words in the main item and the comment, so I’ll avoid taking up your kind offer for this site

Thanks,
David

By: Greg M.

Greg M. — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 22:04:14 +0000

Never mind that people have read Project Gutenberg books off full-sized PCs for decades.

Just because PG has been available for decades doesn’t mean many people actually read whole books on a full sized PC. I’m sure a few people do, but reading all of Moby Dick, or other long books, on a desktop might not be that common.

Personally, I have known about PG since the mid or late 90s and have yet to read anything from there on a full-sized PC.

By: Joseph Gray

Joseph Gray — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 21:47:23 +0000

Hey David, email me several more words from the AP story. I’ll use them in a comment where I tell AP to go pound sand.

By: David Rothman

David Rothman — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:56:09 +0000

Well, no party line at the TeleBlog, lol. I myself will link but often kick away at AP when I do so. Our readers want the news. Besides, in this case, as an example of the Kindle fixation, AP was the news or at least part of it.

Thanks,
David

By: Paul Biba

Paul Biba — Sun, 16 Aug 2009 20:43:48 +0000

Just so our readers know, given AP’s unreasonable stand, I have made it a policy that I will never link to or mention AP on this blog. They don’t deserve the publicity. Thus, I wouldn’t have made this post.