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Originally Posted by CyGuy
I personally would never own a reader device that was remotely accessible by a third party (cell phone be damned). After the whole 1984 fiasco, any Amazon reader was off the table for me. I was shocked at how little outrage there was about the 1984 ebook being remotely deleted. Sure some people whined about it a little, but no one was freaked out by the fact that Amazon had this ability. That was so huge, just WOW huge. They can reach into your bedroom and take your personal property and not even have to answer for it. Someone should have gone to prison for that one...
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A lot of people have a very casual attitude towards Amazon - and they will until Amazon does something people doesn't like.
My issue isn't just the remote accessibility - its their desire to have access to every stage of my consumption process. TM might be ok with Amazon accessing his library data points - but my privacy concerns skyrocketed.
In addition to that - while I may not like or agree with 99.99% of publisher activity...I can't deny their common sense when dealing with Amazon.
I do not want my information crossed over and I do not want Amazon in my library activities - and Amazon effectively lost a sale of a new kindle. I was going to purchase for my grandma...but I'm tired of feeding the bloodsucking monster.
So she'll end up with a different reader not attached to Amazon. And I've put my money where my mouth is.
What surprises me is that whenever any company takes any action to stave off Amazon...people get up in arms. HOW
DARE THEY! *gasp* Penguin and B&N are
the devil!!
But what about Amazon?? WHY should Amazon have access to information that Kobo, Sony, B&N, BAEN, S&S, Hachette, Penguin, etc does not? WHAT makes Amazon such a special little snowflake that they deserve that kind of detailed activity that their competitors do not have access to??