Digital magazine era

Zaggeron

They really have to work out the business and distribution model. Right now the current digital rights paradigm is unacceptable to a lot of people. With a print magazine or book I can give it to a friend when I'm done with it, I can leave it on my coffee table for visitors to read, I can donate it to a library,etc.

Much of the value of a physical object is the fact that only one person can use it at a time -- it can't be at two places at once. Because of this when I'm done with it I can sell it, give it away, etc. It probably has value for someone.

But with the current digital right schemes it's like buying a magazine that self destructs after you read it. I think that once the resolution of print media readers goes up a bit and the devices become more common, they really will have to come up with a way to allow users to transfer ownership -- some way to emulate more closely the ownership rights that people have come to expect for the things they buy. Until such a time I will never buy print media in digital form.

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