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Stephen Downes

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"Within five years there will be more digital content sold than physical content. Three years ago, I said within ten years but I realised that was wrong--it's within five." So says Steve Haber, the president of Sony's digital reading business. He's probably right. But - especially given the source - I'll add this: that in five years we'll be embroiled in exactly the same mess with reading content as we were with music content - people wanting proprietary formats, digital rights management, and locked-down players, instead of open and freely sharable media.

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