{"id":531,"date":"2013-07-08T18:43:25","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T18:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/?p=531"},"modified":"2013-07-08T18:43:25","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T18:43:25","slug":"jonathan-zittrain-digital-books-are-under-the-control-of-distributors-rather-than-readers-wired-uk-8-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2013\/07\/08\/jonathan-zittrain-digital-books-are-under-the-control-of-distributors-rather-than-readers-wired-uk-8-july-2013\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Zittrain: &#8216;Digital books are under the control of distributors rather than readers&#8217; Wired UK, 8 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. Though you can read a book through, say, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/news\/archive\/2010-08\/06\/google-129-million-books\"> Google Books<\/a>, or on a Nook or Kindle, it&#8217;s laborious to save what you see to your computer and truly make the book your own. With cloud-based services, one &#8220;master&#8221; copy of the book is always online, but that makes it vulnerable to manipulation or even deletion.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.co.uk\/magazine\/archive\/2013\/07\/ideas-bank\/how-amazon-kindled-the-bookburners-flames?utm_source=News%40Law+subscribers&amp;utm_campaign=cbac69b865-News_Law_Week_of_Monday_July_8_2013_7_8_2013&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_856982f9c6-cbac69b865-259577617\">Jonathan Zittrain: &#8216;Digital books are under the control of distributors rather than readers&#8217; Wired UK<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries. Though you can read a book through, say, Google Books, or on a Nook or Kindle, it&#8217;s laborious to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/2013\/07\/08\/jonathan-zittrain-digital-books-are-under-the-control-of-distributors-rather-than-readers-wired-uk-8-july-2013\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1681,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1681"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":532,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531\/revisions\/532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/berkmannews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}