Re: [LINK] E-books said to be "utterly unneeded"

From: M. da Cruz (marghanita@ramin.com.au)
Date: Fri Aug 10 2001 - 15:00:38 EST

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Danny Yee wrote:
<snip>
> The Internet and the content available on it demonstrates conclusively
> that there *are* incentives other than profit that will make people
> write and publish. Also, people estimate that 90% of software is
<snip>

Communication perhaps?

The origin of books was not to make profits but to store and communicate
knowledge for future reference - consider the Bible, Koran or the
Bhagavad-Gita. Hans Christian Anderson and the Grimm Brothers wrote down
"folk" fairytales from a storytelling era. The commercialisation of
books as the method to information is rather recent phenomenon.

Marghanita

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