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I like being able to easily purchase fresh content in a timely manner especially on or close to the day the content is published on paper.
The music industry didn't go DRM-less because someone hacked the DRM and broke it free. They've started going DRM-less because it increases sales and the world didn't stop rotating. Their content gets played over and over and over again and people want to buy it.
Book publishers though know their content gets used once. If they're really fortunate maybe they have a classic and people will want to read it more than once. They're scared to death of their content getting handed around for free to get read that once. In their hard scrabble business too much free can mean the difference between a title being barely profitable and being a loser.
If someone creates an easy to use dumper that lets people easily dump content the platform is broken. End result: no more content.
Hacking skills don't come with no responsibilities. And as I've pointed out above in this thread: Amazon has very clearly staked out a position and they've delivered on their end. Does anyone here honestly think that if enough people ask for it Amazon won't add a pan and zoom option for images??? We need to risk destroying the platform to add a feature Amazon clearly could add themselves?
Over in the Experimental section of the Kindle they ask people to send them ideas to their feedback email address on how to improve the platform. Do we know if Dave really even tried?
Where's his email posted to show what evil bastards Amazon are for ignoring him?
If Dave was over here asking folks to email Amazon to request a magnifier heck even I'd pop off an email to support the effort. Why aren't we giving them a chance to prove their evil intent before we pick up the pitch forks and storm the castle walls?
We certainly gave irex every chance to show their true colors before we hacked that platform every which way. And they didn't even (still haven't) bring any content to the table the way Amazon has very much done. Amazon has fought the book content providers like a Tiger and gotten us what we want. Now we're supposed to use our hacking skills to pay them back how and for what cause du jour?
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