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Forward! he cried, from the rear, and the front rank died..

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The subject heading today comes courtesy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon.

In the International Herald Tribune for October 8, 2006:

As books go online, publishers run for cover

By Carter Dougherty

....."Once we can be assured that there will be security for our authors, then we can move forward," said Arnoud de Kemp, spokesman for the digital publishing working group of the German Association of Publishers and Booksellers.
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De Kemp said that in time, new techniques for restricting access to copyrighted books - like dicing a single work into many PDF files and using digital watermarks - could solve this problem....

Just remind me - which way is forward again...?

But it's nice to see them recycling the old mantra about protecting authors. It's weeks since we've heard that one.
Last Updated on Saturday, 15 August 2009 03:38