A few weeks ago, I decided on a whim to purchase an e-book online. Some might say my choice of e-book was odd, because I happened to know the author’s work intimately: I downloaded and paid for a digital version of my own book Mind Wide Open.
Emerging Technology
If only publishers would let us cut, paste, forward, and even change their words
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