Reason #456 not to get a Kindle

[velvetpage]

Sorry, I prefer to own the things I pay for.

Comments

[amarafox.livejournal.com]

Wow.. that's just awful D:

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

Well, their copy protection is worse than I thought.

My source for ebooks is the Baen Free Library. They give some of their books away free; they sell others. And they're available in a variety of file formats, including zipped HTML, that's readable just about anywhaere. They've discovered that giving books away seems to increase sales.

-- hendrik

[hendrikboom.livejournal.com]

I forgot to mention:

http://www.baen.com/library/

-- hendrik

[redeem147.livejournal.com]

I like my books in paper. And I don't think Orwell himself could come and take them away.

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

Perhaps the publisher picked their titles very, very carefully so that the story would go viral quickly and create heaps of publicity for them, the books, Kindle, etc.

[stress-kitten.livejournal.com]

The books involved heighten this from concerning to ludicrous. Hehe.

Yeah, I like to own my purchases, for the most part. My husband has an ebook "library" from O'Reilly Books that we pay a monthly fee for, but it gives him access to the entire set of O'Reilly technical manuals in a quickly evolving setting where individual books cost upwards of $120 each. But that's an entirely different scenario.

[r-caton.livejournal.com]

At least they gave the money back. After all it's not like, software, say where you can copy/sell giveaway... oh sorry, you can't and if M$ think you've dowloaded your OS onto a new machine they make you verify it again with HQ so it works longer than 30 days?

[used_songs]

http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/meta/authors.html <---- useful

My mom has a kindle and loves it but stuff like this (plus still being angry at Amazon from earlier) make it really unappealing to me.

[integritysinger.livejournal.com]

uh. yeah. that won't jive for me.

I mean, I understand the frustration a publisher or author might feel when they see their books being purchased for .50 at goodwill, knowing there will be no royalties earned for that purchase but I figure, hey, the earned the royalties when someone bought it new and well, they owned it so if they chose to donate it ...

but not so with kindle, eh? well, it would be a hard sell for me to switch anyway. i love books. i'd eat them if i could. i sleep with them. i hug them. i smell them. i collect them. i call them my babies. kindle? i don't think so.

[warphammer.livejournal.com]

Err, we are aware that the content was being illegally sold, right? I can understand the creepy in the recall aspect, but sounds like Amazon were doing more or less the right thing here.

Though, really, they should have caught it before it got this far.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

I thought George Orwell was in the public domain - in which case, while the code may have been owned by someone, the content certainly was not.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

My mistake: it's public domain in Canada but not in the States.