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Originally Posted by Maggie Leung
If you're worried about this kinda thing, best buy your books used, at small shops that don't track your purchases. Pay cash. Maybe wear a disguise, lol.
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Hear, hear!
As futurist/conspiracy theorists go, you aren't trying hard enough, OP!
The real threat of Amazon is a lock on future titles due to stomping all the publishing competition. If Amazon becomes the "google" of books, they will have a power over organized thought (books). This threat, if it ever arises, will be akin to Apple and music, or Microsoft and operating systems. A threat to intellectual freedom, but probably not one that will have much more than a decade's worth of impact.
Also, right now Amazon is a champion of the small, where as google and Apple are the opposite. They are far more onerous to individual rights.
-BVL