Wednesday, September 28, 2011

It's almost malevolent now

I have a kindle (in its $139 form) and it's great, but it is really starting to appear that Amazon is simply trying to put all bookstores, not just its major competitors, out of business.

5 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Ebooks are going to do to books and bookstores what email has done to postal workers. Check out Project Gutenberg

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9:35 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Doesn't work good with (free, photocopy-style) .pdfs and .djvus, does it? Gotta convert, no zoom and pan?

I gotta wait then.

10:13 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Until I get some guareentee that I will not wake up some morning and discover that Amazon had deleted books that I had bought from them - http://ulyssesonline.com/2009/07/18/amazon-can-reclaim-your-book/ - If I remember correctly they did this in 2009 with a copy of, appropiately enough, of George Orwell's 1984.

3:27 PM  
Blogger pansypoo said...

good thing i have enough books for the rest of my life.

5:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

Don't need no stinking batteries to read a book.

5:53 PM  

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