Sign of the Times

Sign of the Times

Ben Brooks:

With this method (as I read it) this statement would not be correct: “I own the Steve Jobs iBook.” Instead it seems the correct statement would be: “I own the Steve Jobs book, from the iBookstore.” That’s far more clumsy in my mind.

You could, technically, leave out the “from the iBookstore” bit, but in doing so you would have no way of indicating that you purchased a digital version instead of a dead tree version.

But why would anyone care to go to the trouble of specifying what version they bought? No one says "I bought the new Snow Patrol album from the iTunes Music Store." And no one who heard "I bought the new Snow Patrol album" would assume you did so from Tower Records.

Things change.