Hulleye Comes By!

“We all knew it was coming, didn’t we? Now Princeton University and nine others are introducing DRM’d textbooks. For a 33% discount, students get a 5-month node-locked e-book instead of all that glossy paper. Maybe Congress should just get it over with and change the law to allow EULAs on printed works?”

via slashdot.

This month’s Spider has an interesting article about DRM.

My take on all of this is I don’t understand some people’s (companies’) obsession with e-Books. They didn’t catch on. People don’t like them. They’re a royal pain in the ass. The article says that there are roughly $3.2 million dollars worth of e-books sold every year. $3.2 million?!? That’s essentially -zero-. So why are companies still trying to push what has been proven time and time again to be a product that nobody wants? It ain’t gonna work. Granted I do most of my reading online, but not an entire book! For a book I want to read, I’ll read it before I sleep in bed or while I’m on the crapper!

these guys got too much time on their hands. via digg.