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Why publishers are scared of ebooks — the standard reasons (jseliger.com)
18 points by jseliger on March 10, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 4 comments


They can be scared all they want, but between the iPad and Kindle, they are all I am buying now. I'm done with big, heavy, space-eating print media, just as I grew tired of collecting music on little silver discs.

A decade ago when I left home for college, my new apartment was filled with books, racks of CDs, and a big bulky computer. Now, all of that stuff fits in my Timbuk2 bag.


> a lot of the raisons d’état of publishers goes away

It's raisons d'être! Don't try to appear sophisticated if you're not.


From the Oxford American Dictionary included in OS X:

raison d'état noun ( pl. raisons d'état a purely political reason for action on the part of a ruler or government, esp. where a departure from openness, justice, or honesty is involved.


Raison d'état and raison d'être both exist; they just don't mean the same thing (at all), and what the author meant was raison d'être.

Also:

1. raisons is plural, so they GO away and not GOES (except if you consider that the subject is "a lot", which may be grammatically correct but not semantically?)

2. raisons d'état can't "go away" because they were never there; they are invoked as a (feeble) justification by the perpetrator of the action (they are kind of a lie).




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