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To reduce the issue, "Let's burn books! It's ok because you can just buy them on the Apple Books Store for the iPad"



That would've be hilarious as parody of this commercial if the hydraulic press shot out flames too and burnt some books. Make that message even more ambiguous lol.


Burning books certainly doesn’t have the connotation it used to, given that the idea of a book is now mostly divorced from the physical implementation.

You could burn every physical copy of most recent books and no data would be lost; I assume most authors write with a word processor.


Given all the DRM and other shenanigans implemented on ebooks, I'm not sure that's true anymore.


Yeah, right, until they start rewriting classics, because they don’t fit in today's agenda.




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