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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
But so what if it is? It's just one more on the pile, then. That's no reason to slam people who bought one.
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People who are bitter often don't think about what they are saying until it's too late.
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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
And as I understand Amazon's reasoning behind the Kindle/store package, I wouldn't even slam Amazon over it. (If anything, give grief to publishers for making Amazon's choice of selling model the only choice they had.)
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Amazon had many choices. One of which was to tell the big publishers to drop the DRM requirement or their eBook reader wouldn't support them. So, Amazon does deserve plenty of grief.
On top of that, Amazon, like many eBook sellers, is misrepresenting their eBook purchases as "sale of an eBook" when it really is a "sale of an eBook license" (and an abnormally restrictive license at that).
The whole "Defective by Design" thing is trying to educate people who are ignorant of DRM, so that they understand exactly what they are getting. It's one thing for someone to understand that they are paying $400 for a reader and then paying $10 to borrow a book from Amazon, it's quite another for someone to not understand this and, after a year, find that their reader and eBooks represent money thrown away.