On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:51:15PM +0200, AlunFoto scripsit: > 2009/7/19 Graydon <[email protected]>: > > No. > > > > The publisher *changed their mind* about selling an electronic edition > > and retroactively deleted the copies that had been sold. > > > > Think about this in context of news or political writing. > > I just read the article again. The phrase "changed their mind" does > not occur there. That came from something David Mann had "read the > other day" but didn't state where.
http://pogue.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/some-e-books-are-more-equal-than-others/ http://www.nytimes.com/glogin?URI=http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/technology/companies/18amazon.html&OQ=_rQ3D1&OP=184b8f9dQ2FQ27Q7BwQ20Q27)cW5Q26ccrLQ27L11vQ271(Q27t7Q27rwWJmcIc49Q27WcAnQ5Dm!w5Q27t7Q5DAQ5DQ24cmDJrAI > Remember that Amazon is a portal through which bookstores can sell > their products. Remember that Amazon has no detectable business ethics, spent the first couple-three years of its existence spamming relentlessly, and has no particular track record of telling the truth. "Unauthorized" covers a lot of ground. > But everyone who buys a Kindle automatically agrees to buying all > their literature through Amazon, and the small type actually requests > the buyer's conscent to Amazon doing this sort of thing, iirc. Oh, I'm sure it's strictly legal, at least in the US. The thing to think about is whether or not one wants to do business with a company like that. > I really hope that Google's anticipated e-reader will not be > constrained in this way. There are a number of good, or at least acceptable, readers already, and the general netbook trend is going to improve that; the problem is reasonably priced electronic editions in stable formats. I think it likely that Google has plans to push for the later, too, but keep in mind that Google is an advertising company, with all that this implies. -- Graydon -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
