As much as we love books the print medium does have a way of propagating errors and mistakes which cannot be corrected as easily as electronically published material can.
Nietzsche famously said that there are no such things as facts, only interpretations. Be that as it may, every writer knows that there are certainly such [...]
Errors preserved for eternity in the black and white of print
Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 16 September, 2009 to the technology subset
Could e-books and real time publishing aid censorship?
Posted by John Lampard on Tuesday, 24 February, 2009 to the comment subset
Despite the benefits of e-books and real time publishing, they do not offer the same permanency that the printed word does.
This could potentially facilitate the censoring, and even complete removal, of some documents, should governments or other authorities deem it “necessary”.
In the past, restrictive governments had to ban whole books whose content was deemed [...]
