David Byrne su Kindle, ebooks, DRM, editoria e musica

Interessanti, e documentatissime (assai più di molti articoli  scritti da giornalisti di settore, a dire la verità), le riflessioni del musicista David Byrne sugli ebook, i readers, i diritti nella musica e nell’editoria digitale. Tutto da leggere, ma ecco un assaggio:

“Lastly, and scariest for publishers I guess, is that inevitably someone will hack the Kindle (or other formats) — and the books will become shareable… and copiable and infinitely reproducible, just like MP3s. People laughed at the record companies, with their reputations as money squanderers and for their waste and extravagance — but music hasn’t suffered, and writing and magazines might not either, especially if both writers and publishers can learn from the record companies and not pretend that publishing is any different.”

via David Byrne Journal: 08.25.09: The Kindle Experience (grazie a dedo per la segnalazione).