When his boys wanted to learn about paper airplanes, he bought them 50 books. No, as an incorrigible capitalist, I'm not calling for the confiscation of Gates' wealth or Myhrvold's. Authors may decide to forfeit some or all of the royalties for the 'copies' of their works that are to be used in a library. Let's hope that changes. The big irony is that, as noted elsewhere on this page, TeleRead could actually be very good for businesses, including Microsoft.
Few corporations have as much a stake in e-forms.
Here's a chance for Gates and Myhrvold to do both well and good. The E-Forms Connection M any educators and librarians love the idea of a national digital library full of electronic books. But they wonder if the business community would object to the tax money spent. And business is starting to catch on to the benefits here. A warm reception for TeleRead has come from Tom Brown, a consultant for Fortune 500 companies and a contributor to the Management Update Newsletter at Harvard Business School .