The Project Gutenberg eBook, Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books, by Cory Doctorow

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Title: Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books

Author: Cory Doctorow

Release Date: February 13, 2004 [eBook #11077]

Language: English

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Ebooks: Neither E, Nor Books

Paper for the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies Conference, 2004

February 12, 2004

San Diego, CA

Cory Doctorow

doctorow@craphound.com

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Forematter:

This talk was initially given at the O'Reilly Emerging Technology
Conference [ http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/et2004 ], along
with a set of slides that, for copyright reasons (ironic!) can't
be released alongside of this file. However, you will find,
interspersed in this text, notations describing the places where
new slides should be loaded, in [square-brackets].

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For starters, let me try to summarize the lessons and intuitions
I've had about ebooks from my rele