Patching e-books

Apparently, Amazon has been wirelessly updating error-ridden books, and it raises the obvious question: Should e-book patching even be a thing?



I'm torn. I mean, technology-wise, I think this is great, though I can see the potential abuses all too clearly.



Patching is not a new thing. Computer games have been doing it even longer than George Lucas.* Even print books get the occasional story-tweaking revision. So let's not pretend this is some new, infuriating thing that Big Publishing is...
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Published on October 10, 2011 04:49
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