So I guess I won't be "buying" a Kindle, since I really won't "own" the
thing in any meaningful sense of the word.
Joseph McAllister wrote:
You may find the answer to your conundrum in the fine print of a
Kindle Contract...
If not, it will surely be there next Monday!
On Jul 19, 2009, at 14:22 , P. J. Alling wrote:
I'm sorry, this may not bother you, but it bothers me. Look it in
the physical world. I buy something and put it in my car.
Unbeknownst to me what I bought was stolen property. The vendor also
claiming they didn't know it was stolen, upon discovering their
"mistake", breaks into my car and steals it back. Then then notify
me of the their theft, and send me a refund. How is the breaking and
entering in any way not a crime, or if not a crime a violation of my
expectation of security in my effects? It seems I've been victimized
twice. . This is pretty much what Amazon did. Don't say I got my
money back, that's not the point
Joseph McAllister wrote:
From what I've read and heard in the past few days, the deal is
this. Amazon had/has contracted with many firms or individuals
representing themselves as firms to provide electronic versions of
books.
Amazon did not do a good enough job of checking the authenticity of
these contractors, and found itself in the position of distributing
one or more books to Kindle users without the express written
permission of the copyright holders.
When the copyright holders complained, Amazon sucked the illegally
distributed (by them) volumes out of everyone's Kindle. To protect
themselves against serious lawsuits. They returned everyone's money,
and, for all we know, now have legal copies of the same works (in
some cases) available for purchase once more.
They are working on a system where the kids notes would not be
sucked back should this ever happen again. And that seems not too
hard to do, allowing user input to be stored separately from the
text of the books.
Time will deal with it.
Joseph McAllister
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