Espen sez, "Yesterday, the Norwegian book industry introduced a scheme where they would sell electronic books on little plastic cards, to be inserted in proprietary readers – an astonishingly stupid idea even by their standards. Here is my riff on that idea – and a solution to the 'books as status signals' conundrum."
Norway's world-beating ebook stupidity
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