07-27-2011, 11:40 PM | #16 |
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Interesting point about B&N or sony being equivalently right wing (in the sense of neoliberal/corporatist). If you consider the case of wikileaks losing their amazon server privileges. It is a case of "guilt" for amazon only b.c. amazon provides a service in the first place. The other ereader designing booksellers don't even provide such a service, meaningfully. Further, both B&N and sony have always tried to undercut other paperbound publisher's prices to compete, thus further eroding independent publisher's income. To say nothing of sony's traditionally extremist position on drm and device lock in, even putting drm on any file, even your own personal recordings, if you wanted to load them on a sony device.
Ultimately, there is no need to "vote with your dollars" when you can use the device for any enlightening purpose, hence undercutting the right wing monopolistic business method of the one that sold it to you. But it doesn't hurt to be reminded, given how much tech talk can become a mindless twin of navel gazing. TBH, I think I was just going crazy talking all about file formats and functions and hardware quality on these little slabs. I'm new to this and got sucked in today. It kind of repels me. Even given how cool the possibilities are on these babies. |
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Does anyone really care about the alleged political ramifications of buying from one company or another?
All I care about is getting a good device at a low price. Therefore, I have a Kindle. I don't know anything about Amazon's politics or whatever, nor do I care. I buy other products from them all the time. What I care about is price, delivery time, reliability, customer service. |
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How about you go middle of the road and convert wikileaks html pages to an azw book? Then you can endanger lives on your kindle. And everybody's happy! Last edited by readingglasses; 07-28-2011 at 01:26 PM. Reason: to make funnier |
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