As the Kindle has, well, rekindled the eternally presumptuous forecasts of e-book supremacy, we'd like to point out a new and as-yet untouted advantage of reading-by-screen: It could land your butt in court with a $250,000 defamation judgment.
That would be courtesy of actor and whack job Tom Cruise, who has succeeded in scaring Australian bookstores out of stocking an unauthorized biography with unflattering claims about his Scientology adherence. Australian lawyers are ensuring potential readers that they can still have the full allegedly defamatory experience, however, by purchasing an e-book version, which would qualify as "publication" under Aussie libel law.
e-book version of Cruise biography could lead to legal action in Australia [ReligionNewsBlog]
