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

[Chirgwin, Richard]

Sounds liks someone should get busy putting Agatha Christie on Gutenberg.
Come to think of it, how much work would be involved rendering a Project
Gutenberg .txt file to a Palm?
RC


-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Scheid [mailto:eric.scheid@ironclad.net.au]
Sent: Friday, 10 August 2001 2:12
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Subject: Re: [LINK] E-books said to be "utterly unneeded"


>News.Com: Disappearing ink: E-book self-destructs. 
>The e-publisher is releasing the Agatha Christie classic "And Then There 
>Were None" under what it's billing as the first "time-based permit." That 
>is, readers who pay $1 to download the book will get to enjoy it for 10 
>hours before the content disappears. 

http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6815857.html

speechless.

e.

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