Beyond the PDF

Posted by Derek Cornish
Jan 21, 2011 at 05:37 PM

Alexander Deliyannis wrote:
>In this age of wikinomics the PDF seems like steam powered technology at best.
>However, I assume that it has flourished largely due to its convenience for
>intellectual rights management. That is probably the reason that major academic
>publishing houses support it, so that one can find most papers in PDF format in the
>first place.
>

Exactly! And there is a certain irony in its lack of convenience for academics, who are, after all, the ones who produce the intellectual property.

Derek