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Originally Posted by din155
I stopped reading after:
I thought he was an author and did his research before writing on his blog atleast  |
I wasn't too impressed with it either. A lot of people confuse DRM with proprietary platform. The proprietary platform is actually a bigger deal to transferring books or reading on any device. Not that I love DRM either, but that isn't an "Amazon only" thing. I find the ePUB DRM and the changes they are trying to make more of a problem than Amazon's DRM.
I still haven't seen a single article ask whether Amazon has the right to sell pre-orders without a contract in place. And saying that Amazon is raising the prices of certain books to list price...well, hey, nothing stopping Hachette from lowing the price to make them competitive. I'm not a believe that Amazon is wonderful and roses, but I do wish we'd see some better reporting on this. Instead of asking questions or intelligently reporting, people are just spouting what they read elsewhere.
If an author is mad at Amazon, link to other retailers. Go do a book signing with a bunch of your friends. Go buy a book or three from Kobo or B&N.