[3553] in cryptography@c2.net mail archive
Re: Security scheme for e-books
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John R Levine)
Tue Oct 27 09:05:46 1998
Date: Tue, 27 Oct 1998 04:43:42 -0500 (EST)
From: John R Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
To: Jay Holovacs <holovacs@idt.net>
cc: cryptography@c2.net
In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19981025182055.006bfa68@pop3.idt.net>
> >. . . Now you have a thing that you can
> >plug into your e-book, but more importantly resell, lend, or give away just
> >like a real book.
> >
> Somehow I doubt publishers will be willing to provide this capability.
> While we have long had this right with books, it has been strongly resented
> by publishers, and now that they have the chance to create a new medium
> without this functionality, they are unlikely to build it in.
Perhaps, but I think it's unlikely they'd write off the entire library
market. Libraries buy an awful lot of books.
Regards,
John Levine, johnl@iecc.com, Primary Perpetrator of "The Internet for Dummies",
Information Superhighwayman wanna-be, http://iecc.com/johnl, Sewer Commissioner
Finger for PGP key, f'print = 3A 5B D0 3F D9 A0 6A A4 2D AC 1E 9E A6 36 A3 47
