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Originally Posted by Rbneader
And yet people buy fire insurance to cover the remote chance that a house burns down, and establish laws to regulate flamethrower purchase and use. Oh, and we also often remove DRM on books we purchase in case the bookstore goes down. Buy car insurance in case we have an accident. Carry cellphones in case we get stuck somewhere.
Why are you quibbling with this instance of preparing for something unlikely but unpleasant?
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There is a difference between:
- unlikely in the sense that it is more likely not, but still (at least in the case of car accidents) has a reasonable chance of happening, or in the case of ebookstores, we know will go down -- how many ebookstores have gone out of business in the last year or so, again?
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- somebody hacking Amazon so they can change a book by Karl Marx into a pro-capitalism book. To my knowledge, nothing like that has happened yet, and I highly doubt anyone will ever care enough to do this.
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Originally Posted by susan_cassidy
But they could only change books that they have control over, not books published by Amazon, for example, unless they are publishing via KDP. Then they are welcome to change whatever they want. No one has to read it, though.
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