Thread: 'I should be the Nook's ideal customer. But I'm not...I am locked in.'
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Old 06-19-2011, 04:19 PM   #172
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Originally Posted by Andrew H. View Post
Because of the horrible negative publicity they got when they did so. And because they swore to never do it again.

I mean, any company can do anything at any time. Maybe you just shouldn't use an e-reader at all.

No, they promised not to delete purchased books from people's Kindles, after the '1984' debacle.

They did not promise to stay in the ebook business forever.

You're apparently talking about an entirely different incident than I am. Since ebooks were not common when Amazon ditched ebooks the first time, I don't recall them getting any publicity at all.

There's no guarantee that the same thing won't happen to Amazon's ebook business in say, five years, that's happening to Fictionwise right now. Putting all your eggs in one basket in the belief that a corporation 'cares' about you is what I'm calling naive.
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