[TriLUG] [OT] Kindle jeers? [Was e-mail suckback]

[Scott Lambdin]

Ray Bradbury is rewriting *Fahrenheit 451* as
*Revoke_Work( dbhit ("select * from customers"), *,  permanent );*

On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 5:46 PM, Noel Nunkovich <ntnunk at gmail.com> wrote:

> For what it's worth, I've owned a Kindle 1 for about 18 months now. I
> absolutely love the thing and I'm thinking about passing this one on to
> the wife and upgrading to a Kindle 2.  Mine has been my constant
> companion and there is absolutely nothing better when traveling.
> Reading on the device is comfortable and even better than a book in my
> opinion, simply due to the fact that books, especially hard covers, are
> physically awkward to hold in many positions.
>
> I understand the concerns with the pull-back of 1984 and in fact share
> them myself to some extent.  On the other hand, Amazon did refund the
> money.  Also, I've been a very frequent customer of Amazon, and an
> Associate until Bev Perdue's lovely legislation killed it for me, so I
> trust that they will generally do "the right thing."  On top of that,
> books on the Kindle generally cost less (and in some cases much less)
> than paper books, the convenience of being able to just download
> something else when your sitting in the airport waiting for a flight and
> you decide that the book you've got isn't doing it for you, the
> convenience of being able to carry tens or hundreds of books with you at
> all times (a huge plus for me since I used to refuse to step into an
> airport without at least 3 paperbacks), and the ability to store books
> digitally (another huge plus for me given that I read at least 3 or 4
> books per week normally) make the Kindle well worth the trade-off of
> dealing with DRM.
>
> Just my opinion.
> Noel
>
> On Wed, 2009-08-05 at 16:55 -0400, Christopher L Merrill wrote:
> > Allen Freeman wrote:
> > > It's not only true, it's already been done. See also: 1984.
> >
> > All sarcasm aside, this may not have been handled as well as it could
> > have been, but this IS the point of DRM.  If you don't like DRM, then
> > don't buy a device with it.  I guess a lot of people didn't bother to
> > understand what they were buying (much like the chinese and russians
> > buying our high-risk mortgages).
> >
> > The readers essentially purchased stolen goods, through no fault of
> > their own. When Amazon found that they didn't have the rights to sell
> > it, they revoked it and refunded the money.  If the police come and
> > confiscate some stolen property, there is no guarantee you'll get your
> > money back, depending on where you bought it. So IMO, nobody should
> > complain too loudly.
> >
> > I know this is probably an unpopular sentiment, but they chose the
> > most expedient path to "doing the right thing", IMO - which is to clean
> > up their mess.  Could they have tried to negotiate a better resolution
> > and get the rights to it? Maybe. How long would it take? How much would
> > it cost them? Hard to guess. But IIRC, it was one of their publisher/
> > partners that made the mistake, not Amazon.  You can hardly blame
> > Amazon for that.
> >
> > Just my 2c
> > Chris
> >
> >
> > > --- On Thu, 8/6/09, Brian Henning <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > From: Brian Henning <lugmail at cheetah.dynip.com>
> > > Subject: [TriLUG] [OT] Kindle jeers?  [Was e-mail suckback]
> > > To: "TriLUG" <trilug at trilug.org>
> > > Date: Thursday, August 6, 2009, 12:54 AM
> > >
> > > Hi Gang,
> > >
> > > This recent thread and the mention of Kindle has given me a good setup
> to
> > > ask -- what's bad about Kindle?  I was thinking about getting one of
> the 2G
> > > models, with their nice slimness and ability to read any TXT or PDF
> file.
> > > The implication just now is that Amazon can make unreadble a book
> you've
> > > paid for after the fact.  Is that true?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > ~Brian
> > >
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