I don’t know what the word is for this type of irony but I see images of a snake eating itself in between two mirrors that reflect ad infinitum...
And we all know who the number one Kindle fan is...
And still I see 0 point in owning a Kindle.
Doubleplus ungood.
Animal Farm.
Reminds me of Al Gore living in a mansion, flying all over the world, and eating the fanciest richest chow. All while telling everyone else to live like cavemen to avoid some fake enemy.
While I like my Kindle I’ve found this story disturbing. Hope it’s a one-shot, since Amazon has gotten a lot of bad publicity here. They should have erased the book from their server but not from their customers’ Kindles without first getting their permission.
Not ironic at all.
Respecting PROPERTY RIGHTS is not government censorship.
No way, no how.
Reasons we like it:
1) Over 300,000 titles available. Many older titles are free, or $0.99 each.
2) Download books via wireless. No waiting in line. No out of stock titles.
3) Holds over 1,000 books in memory, but is the size of a couple of paperbacks.
4) A battery charge is good for DAYS, not hours.
5) Newspaper and magazine subscriptions are delivered automatically and wirelessly. They are just THERE to read.
6) Email other books / documents to Kindle for automatic conversion.
7) Free book samples before buying.
HA!
That’s a good reason not to get a Kindle. I mean I understand what they did and it’s right most of the way, if they company they bought from didn’t have the rights then they need to stop selling it. But, I hate active devices that can have stuff deleted from them remotely without my involvement.
I’ve considered getting one since I got to play with it a few months ago. Not considering it any more. If they can do that remotely, what else can they do? I think they sell news articles. I’d had to archive an interesting article and find it’s been deleted (or worse changed) when I go back to read it. News articles on the web can be changed too, but if I find an interesting one I can save it to my local drive that nobody can delete or modify (at least no legally).
Oh cruel, cruel irony...
I’m one of the people that this affects. I downloaded Animal Farm and 1984 last month, and I’ve already finished them. I didn’t know about this until I got an email last week from Amazon that they were crediting my account for the cost of the book ($0.88)+tax, and removing it from their list. They said they were expecting to have an authorized edition soon. Animal Farm did disappear from my Kindle.
1984 is still there, though. Either they haven’t processed it yet, or they have worked out the licensing already.
I briefly entertained the idea of e-mailing them back that I had already read the books... should I proceed to forget them as well?
I would never trust a Big Brother device or service like the Kendall, iPod, or iTunes. I’ll read books and listen to music I download myself on p2p networks on my netbook.
precisely why we cannot allow ink and paper to vanish
Now here's something about the Kindle that I really don't like. Amazon can access your device w/o your permission!
Does this bug anyone besides me?
First it was, "Our requests to interview Mr. "X" were denied."
Then it was, "Our phone calls were not returned."
Now it's "No one answered the e-mail."
What's next? "Our tweets were ignored?"
Talk about blaming someone else because you're a bad reporter.
In any Kindle dictionary, the word ‘gullible’ is missing!
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Every time I see a nice car with an Obama bumpersticker I shake my head. I want to tell them that they don’t realize that they will not be one of the pigs.
The irony is marvelous. But why, given the Constitutional justification for copyright, should there be a “rights holder” for works written in the 1940’s by a now-deceased author?
Intellectual property law has been corrupted to the point that it no longer promotes the arts and sciences, but impedes progress in the arts (the creation of derivative works) and sciences for the sake of commercial interests that never created anything artistic or scientific.
1984 and Animal Farm should be in the public domain (along with a whole lot of other literature, music, art, and for that matter cinema).