Firestorm of criticism: Readability, read it later but without the ads

GigaOM :: There’s been a minor furore brewing in the digital-content sphere over the past few days involving Readability, an app and web service that allows readers to save content from any website and read it later — without any of the advertising that most sites rely on for revenue. Not surprisingly, this idea doesn’t appeal to a lot of publishers, and John Gruber of Daring Fireball re-ignited the current firestorm of criticism with some comments about how the team behind Readability are “scumbags.”

[Mathew Ingram:] Is collecting money for publishers a favor, or extortion?

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