Peter Seebach, Electronic publishing, usability, and a free lunch: The need for open standards, IBM Developer Works, September 2002. Seebach argues that ebook publishers must choose between protecting their books against piracy and making them usable. He praises Baen Books (often praised in FOSN) for understanding that open access to its ebooks increases sales more than it hurts them. (Thanks to El.pub Weekly.)
Posted by
Peter Suber at 9/29/2002 04:19:00 PM.
The open access movement:
Putting peer-reviewed scientific and scholarly literature
on the internet. Making it available free of charge and
free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.
Removing the barriers to serious research.
