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Originally Posted by dmikov
Well for people who already invested in the Kindle it is effectively censorship.
You seem to forget, that while author can publish his work on Xyz site in Zyx format the reader who has the electronic device he paid money for are limited to only certain sites in this case Amazon.
It's like saying there was no censorship in Soviet Russia, because author could publish his work in some other country.
And your talk about how it is legal doesn't really change anything by the way, in some countries censorship is legal, but still called censorship.
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People with kindles aren't limited to buying books from Amazon. They can buy books anywhere and sideload them to the Kindle. They can even buy non-DRM'd books in other formats, convert them in Calibre, and e-mail them to their Kindle.
And of course having a Kindle doesn't mean that you can't read a book in a different format on a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
As others have pointed out, your Soviet Union claim is both offensive and extremely non-apt: the fact that a dissident's book was published in France but unavailable to people in the USSR is not at all analogous to Amazon not publishing a book that is available on B&N or Smashwords *or the author's own site.*
Maybe there would be a point if Amazon's TOS required 5-25 years of imprisonment for reading any book not published by Amazon, in any format including paper.