The above image shows my Kindle displaying a page from Tony Judt’s The Memory Chalet (of which its collected form seems more affecting than the individual pieces from the New York Review of Books from which it was assembled). It’s an official Kindle edition, checked out from the library, but downloaded via Amazon. And, how about that, it’s got two references to “Slavoj i ek.”
Not that most readers of Judt will have any trouble knowing who he means. But it’s enough to pull me out of the text for a moment, to make me notice the medium and its deficiencies.
I mention it here because it seems to sum up something that’s been confronting me this week: if media companies want consumers to pay for disembodied digital downloads of their content, they’ve got to deliver content that actually works, via delivery that actually works. This is a $10 download. (Yeah, I got it for free, but the file’s the same.) You could at least format it right.
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hman said:
#FANCY
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