Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 17th Jul 2009 21:46 UTC
Every now and then, these news items cross your path that simply don't need any words or imagery in order to make an impact. This is definitely one of those. You all know Amazon's Kindle, right? It's Amazon's successful e-book reader which allows you to buy a subset of Amazon's book catalogue in electronic form. Well, the term "buy" doesn't really apply here. Update: In a rare case of company mea culpa, Amazon has explained that deleting the books was a bad idea, and they assured us it won't happen again. The issue here was that the publisher behind the two Orwell books in the Kindle Store did not have the rights to sell these books, and after Amazon was informed by the rightsholder, they removed the books. Still, according to the NYT, more books were deleted from Kindles, even though Amazon doesn't have the right to do so according to its own TOS.
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2006-06-02
Kids, take it easy. The role of the mediator in future is going to be severely limited. What Radiohead did with In Rainbows will be replicated more and more:
http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1666973,00.html
Money will no longer be a means of exchange; this will be replaced by bandwidth, or slots on the computational grid.
The publisher, journalist, the PR people, the agent...they will go the way of the dodo, and this process will be accelerated by such examples as this by Amazon of an essential hypocrisy: "we will make you respect some aspects of the 19th C transactional model, but where this does not fit our 21st C strategy or needs, we will do what we like."
Sorry Amazon, you can get as Web 2.0 on our collective ass as you like but we will, literally and metaphorically, no longer buy it.