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Originally Posted by dacattt
Bet they won't give you a refund a few years down the road when you can't transfer the book/s they "banned" to your new devices. In a few years, are you going to be able to find that same book at some small e-book store. Less likely. Net result, the censoring wins, you're without your book.  |
This is true of *all* ereaders, though, and it's an inherent problem with e-books. There is no guarantee that, in five years, you'll be able to read your e-books on any device. This is far from an Amazon problem. And I'm much more confident that Amazon will be in the business of selling e-books in five years than I am that B&N or Borders will be in business at all, or that Apple will still be selling ibooks.
So if you really want to be safe, you shouldn't buy e-books.
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If the line moves, as others have suggested above, and Amazon becomes something like the evil Wallymart empire, and now the line restricts books based on religion and/or politics and/or anything a loud group determines isn't proper for you to read.... you still loose your books.... and your money... without crossing that line of civil disability and stripping the locks. 
Such a way to run a company!
But it doesn't matter if you don't care what someone else does with your reading material. 
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Yeah, the "if the line moves" argument is pretty weak. I mean, sure, Amazon could switch to only selling books by Catholic authors, for instance. But the fact that they stopped selling a few self-published erotica titles dealing with incest is no evidence that they are going to stop selling all offensive material.
AFAICT, Amazon is still selling 50 of the author's erotica titles.