Before downloads, customers would be visited by digital priests of their respective religious persuasions. With great pomp and circumstance, they would "pledge" not to forward their books to everybody in world without compensating authors and publishers. Break pledge, and you'd find yourself in purgatory, hand-copying old encyclopedias.

Or maybe a totalitarian law would work instead. First-offenders guilty of unlawful content reproduction would have to wear a scratchy wool eye patch for one year. For a second crime, patch would be now a mask. We could set up toll-free hot-lines and reward people for spying on their neighbors.

The Real Point

See my real point here? No easy way exists to loosen DRM grip--this complicated issue can't be addressed with good old-fashioned guilt and fear. But e-book standards for DRM and formats would help. I am counting on laws of capitalism, which always prevail. A demand will eventually be met with supply, and I'm hoping that right set of standard will break from pack and simplify digital content landscape. That will be a blessed day. Microsoft, Adobe and Palm and others now have their own special technology fee tacked on to price of e-books. And that complicates merchandising. We e-book merchants would rather not have multiple cost structures for same e-book.

Design is defined as a plan or pattern formed for purpose of making or doing something. It explains how things are done or how to come up with something.

A design must have a purpose, or else it will be useless. It must contain enough information. You can use visual languages, such as chart, table or graph, for it to become more understandable. It should also explain details. Start from general idea, then, give specific details. Make sure that each detail is related to main idea.

There are many types of design, such as a graphic design. A graphic design results from features of lines, colors, shape, materials or texture.