<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9b597f49-203f-4c56-a3a7-d0d4e94a10eb/A29ECA00-393B-49DD-90FF-4DD1885E1C36/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ireaderreview.com/2009/08/12/controversial-books-ereaders/" href="http://ireaderreview.com/2009/08/12/controversial-books-ereaders/" style="font-size: 11px;">ireaderreview.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ireaderreview.com/2009/08/12/controversial-books-ereaders/"><P>What happens when a book comes out that threatens the very fabric of society? Or perhaps gets a particular demographic all riled up?</p> <OL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">There are loud protests, followed by governments banning the book.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">The author is threatened, chastised, told never to write anything similar again.</LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">Measures are taken to prevent the spread of these ‘illegal and immoral ideas’.</LI> </OL> <P>If you’ve written something that goes against the ‘moral values’ of the time, or insults a particular religion, your book gets banned and only a few copies are circulated surreptitiously.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ireaderreview.com/2009/08/12/controversial-books-ereaders/"><P><EM>What would happen if a new book came out that upended some greatly treasured tenet of society or religion? </EM></p> <OL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What would happen to Galileo’s and Darwin’s books in an ebook world?  </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What if 30% of the customer base of the company hosting ebooks in the cloud threatened a boycott? </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What if the government dictated that the book should be banned?  </LI> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;">What if a particular religion screamed bias?</LI></OL></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/A29ECA00-393B-49DD-90FF-4DD1885E1C36/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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