3 de abril de 2010

iPad à venda - "o fim da História" para os livros?



Na página de opinião do New York Times, comenta-se o lançamento no mercado do novo gadget da Apple, o iPad, nestes termos:
The End of History (Books): "TODAY, Apple’s iPad goes on sale, and many see this as a Gutenberg moment, with digital multimedia moving one step closer toward replacing old-fashioned books.

Speaking as an author and editor of illustrated nonfiction, I agree that important change is afoot, but not in the way most people see it. In order for electronic books to live up to their billing, we have to fix a system that is broken: getting permission to use copyrighted material in new work. Either we change the way we deal with copyrights — or works of nonfiction in a multimedia world will become ever more dull and disappointing.
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