Piracy
Microsoft Office to go Ad Supported?
I’m always interested in how products transition from old to new models (hence the name of this site), but I have to say that I’m surprised by this quote from an MS executive that Office 14 will have an ad-supported component. There will be ad-based revenue streams. There’s an opportunity to draw those pirate customers [...]
DRM hurts publishers as well as users.
Having won a minor battle with the Kindle, publishers are now free to request that digital reading can be disabled on any individual book that is downloaded. That may be bad news fhe book industry. So far the transition to digital media has been filled with different industries practicing radical nose removal, absolutely convinced [...]