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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RE: ...and limited access to boot
by Carld on Sat 18th Jul 2009 13:47
in reply to "...and limited access to boot"
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>There are stories that Amazon limits how often you can download books as well.
Not true. The publisher puts limits on the number of devices you can have a book on at one time, not Amazon. That limit is normally 5 or 6, and if you need to free up a license because you got a new device, a call to customer service will do that.
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There are stories that Amazon limits how often you can download books as well. For a single kindle that never changes, not such a big deal. But if you trade up your old kindle for a new one, and then get a DX, or use the iPhone kindle application, you can pretty soon have several copies.
Add to that on the iPhone you get the latest OS from Apple which wipes your phone, and you have a chance of not being able to redownload a book you once had.
Plus, there seems to be no notification of how many times you can download a book, etc.
This idea sours the entire process for me.
I limit my ebooks to stuff I can download and burn to a CD and load at my leisure on my iPod.