Open Media Review » Open Media http://openmediareview.com Collecting the best in what Open Media has to offer Wed, 03 Feb 2010 20:39:17 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 An unexpected case for Open Media http://openmediareview.com/2008/01/27/an-unexpected-case-for-open-media/ http://openmediareview.com/2008/01/27/an-unexpected-case-for-open-media/#comments Sun, 27 Jan 2008 17:36:25 +0000 Mur Lafferty http://openmediareview.com/2008/01/27/an-unexpected-case-for-open-media/ BoingBoing reports about a rotting Detroit book depository (I’d post a pic here, but they’re listed as no unauthorized use). It is a poster child for urban decay. As a writer I look at the millions of words rotting away, all the work that went into those books, and how tragic it is that they’re decaying.

But on the other hand, I realize as we move toward putting more of our  content into digital media, this doesn’t have to happen. Honestly, even though I’m releasing Playing For Keeps via PDF issues, I’m not a huge fan of ebooks yet – they’re just not for me. I might be interested in the Kindle except for the DRM associated with it (and the fact that you pay to subscribe to blogs), but I am a still a die hard book lover. But I do acknowledge that every day we put more content online, which means the words will likely never be lost.

(And if we share them via open media, it’s virtually guaranteed they’ll never be lost!)

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