Digital, Electronic, and Online—Each is Different
The Economist has gotten on the wrong side of a favorite pet-peeve of
mine: confusing "digital" with "electronic." Fear the blog post, Economist.
When I read in the story "Digitisation and Its Discontents" that the works of the Beatles are "scarcely available digitally," I was struck. How does that square with the Beatles CD I have in my CD collection? All the others for sale on Amazon? Is this some mass bootleg operation?
No, what's going on is that the Economist is confusing the words...
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