電子書

Leader_Self-destructing ebooks reveal a dark digital truth
FT社評:「消失的電子書」揭示數字產品真相


微軟關閉其電子書店,其銷售的小說、傳記、手冊和歷史書已不復存在。這揭示出網購便利背後令人不快的現實。

A decade ago, in suitably ironic fashion, Amazon reached into customers’ electronic shelves and deleted copies of Nineteen Eighty-Four which it had sold to them. Now another Big Tech firm is gearing up for a spate of digital text destruction. When Microsoft closes its ebook store later this month, every novel, biography, self-help guide and history book it sold will cease to work.

10年前,亞馬遜(Amazon)以相當諷刺的方式進入客戶的電子書架,刪除了其銷售給他們的《1984》(Nineteen Eighty-Four)電子書。如今,另一個「科技巨擘」進行了一波電子書銷燬。微軟(Microsoft)已在本月關閉其電子書店,其銷售的所有小說、傳記、自助手冊和歷史書已不復存在。

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