Why are the ebooks more expensive? In the article it talks about how you can buy a paper back book for 9$ but the ebook is 12$, why? Also the problem is you can not give away ebooks, sure you can share for a 2 week period on some but you can’t give it away. No longer will the system of passing down the family books that you thought were good, now the kids will have to buy their own if they want it.

I remember going though my own families books and reading them. When I was nine I remember picking up my older brother’s copy of Kurt Vonnegut’s Breakfast Club and reading it or the books on WWII that my dad had laying around. That will no longer happen in the future. Growth will be dampend because of this. Since e-books are setup in such a way that sharing is not allowed. Sure the publishers and authors want and should get there cut but how will this happen in the family in the future. Should a family buy one reader that everyone should share? How would it be shared? How do you really share your computer right now with everyone in the family? The same is true with books, only one reader at a time. But my point is sure one reader at a time, but you have multiple readers of that one printed book. Now you can not do that. I wonder if we have taken a step back from the meaning of the Gutenberg’s printing press where the idea was that you print as many copies as you can and as many people can read as many single copies printed as can be.

Also with the effect of with the ebooks that they can pull any book off the device that the ebook creators feel should not be out there. Just think Amazon did that with the “Nineteen eighty four” and “Animal Farm”. What will stop them or anyone else in the future.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703447004575449953277291226.html

This article is very informative and I would suggest it as reading to anyone that wants to start getting a business presence on line. But not only is this good for businesses but also for clubs, groups, everyone. Just have a plan that you want on and go for it.

http://www.openforum.com/idea-hub/topics/technology/article/how-to-run-your-business-online-for-10-and-a-google-account-matt-silverman

Isn’t this just like Microsoft, buy up a company and then shut it down. Oh wait this is Apple that is doing it. They have iAd which Quattro Wireless help build. We all know Steve Jobs: Good artists copy great artists steal

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704476104575439983908711508.html?mod=googlenews_wsj