Thread: Any news if Amazon plans on rolling out a Kindle 4.0 soon?
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Old 03-17-2011, 06:18 PM   #79
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Originally Posted by karunaji View Post
Kindle is a very nice and cheap device but it is artificially limited to increase scarcity. 1) It is meant only for Amazon books, 2) It doesn't allow books from other vendors due to DRM, incompatible formats by design and closed device. (I can use Kindle only because I cross the legal line and remove the DRM.) 3) Georestrictions. Need I say more?

Kindle yet have to achieve the level of exclusivity of Apple products but it looks that Amazon wants to follow the footsteps of Apple/Soviets. It is exactly my 20+ years old Soviet experience that people have some money and they want to buy stuff but the vendor will not sell it to them. You would have either to be put on the waiting list or buy it in the black market.
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Originally Posted by karunaji View Post
I think that you are trolling.

1) For example, there is no way to upload other books via 3G without paying Amazon for data transfer. Wi-Fi is better but sometimes I still get documents in proper format rejected when sending them through <user>@free.kindle.com. Why can't I use Wi-Fi directly for this?

2) Too obvious, doesn't even require rebuttal.

3) Yes, stupid publishers, and Amazon facilitates them.
you just pulled this rabbit out of the hat. wi-fi was not part of the discussion

people having been stripping DRM since calibre has been available. I don't know what is "obvious" about it

if something is made geographically unavailable BY THE PUBLISHER it doesn't matter who is selling it
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