
If Microsoft Had Been The First To Invent Books
- Before you can open the cover of your new book, you must obtain a book activation code by phoning Microsoft.
- Sorry, only one person may ever read your book.
- It's full of spelling mistakes and typos.
- When you're reading your book, the type can mysteriously disappear.
- Libraries, which are for sharing books, are illegal.
- You must acknowledge you have read and understood the Book License Agreement Hype (BLAH) before you can read your book.
- Microsoft has the right to enter your premises to conduct book inspections to make sure your book is being read in accordance with the BLAH.
- The Book Users' Group General Alliance (BUGGA) calculates that the annual loss of revenues to Microsoft arising from BLAH violations in 2001 was $10.97 billion.
- There are two versions of your book - the "Standard" and the "Pro" versions. In the standard version, those pages containing the most useful information have been stuck together.
- Confidential information is inexplicably in bigger type that can be easily read by anyone glancing over your shoulder.