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mikecane on June 23, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: Apple kills fonts in iBooks, strikes blow to stand...

These stupid eBook readers are transient duct-tape technology that will fade away. Books will be on the web. Concentrate on the beautiful type for that.

WiseWeasel on June 24, 2010 [–]

I could see this being appealing; offering books as HTML5 'apps' behind a paywall. You could exploit local storage to cache them on various devices.

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