Re: discontinuation of the Microsoft Reader

--- In [email protected], Beth Young <zbyoung@...> wrote:
> I wish publishers would get a clue that their proprietary formats make us less likely to buy, not more.

Do they? Only those who've been burned and those who know those who've been burned know not to buy them.
All the 'yet-to-be-charred' just see another product waiting to be bought.

> At the very least, these providers ought to offer a one-time transfer to a live format when they decide to kill their old format. 
> 
> Beth

Excellent idea, but those who've spent years stringing digital concertina wire and doing their best to achieve total control of access to various files would be very unlikely to think of it.
Ed

Ed Howdershelt - Abintra Press

Science Fiction & Semi-Fiction

http://www.AbintraPress.com





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