Sony has taken some stabs at giving e-books more popularity with the Librie e-book reader that was only released in Japan. The Librie uses some uber technologies to make reading the e-book as natural as possible. The main issue plaguing the e-book world is the issues of piracy. Sony has been trying to fight piracy with the Digital Rights Management (DRM). For example the e-books they sell self-destruct after 60 days.
What s the point of having a nice Sony Librie if you have to actually buy the books? Well hackz0rs of the world united to rewrite the firmware used in the Sony Librie to work around DRM protection on e-books and allowed those downloaded books to be read. Suck on THAT, Gutenberg.
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