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Or maybe I should put it into a fable...
First they took the meaning of "hacker" from us, and changed it a little - I mean, look at the security threat -
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No idea what you mean by that.
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- then they took the meaning of "pirate" from whoever identified themselves that way, and made it their own,
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The word "pirate" is a ridiculous over-dramatization, yes. I agree.
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- then they took the "book" and turned it into the best commercial good there ever was ("costfree" in production, distribution and storage, small in size and therefore delivered within seconds, ecosystem payed for by the user, and protected in all aspects) and sold us usage licenses on it
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The ebook is not an Amazon exclusive, though.
And what you are describing is
every vendor's idea of an ebook....
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- then they made all aspects of it (production, distribution and format) a monopoly with kfx
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There is no KFX monopoly, but I'm beginning to think you have a monopoly on paranoia.
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- buying the rights to create an ebook out of publishers hands
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A publisher can make all the ebooks they like. Please explain WTF you think that statement means.
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- then they added a few saveguards within the processes so they cant be reversed easily
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I'll grant you that for KFX.
Please remember that AZW3 was just as closed. Then they got around Amazon's closed binary format.
Such is life as the consumer -- corporations develop proprietary formats, public-spirited individuals figure out how it ticks.
Why is DOCX any better?
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- somehow all without attracting media attention or a public discussion
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If you don't count this discussion, but since it is a non-issue that's all right anyway.
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- then they told us, we would get new features only in exchange for further regressions on our rights
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It. Is. A. Freaking. Book.
No new features are required or wanted.
I am serenely happy with my reverse-engineered AZW3.
KFX can take a flying jump off the Empire State Building for all the value I see in it.
But I could say the exact same thing about the differences between AZW3 and EPUB.
Which are however, legitimately better formats than MOBI.
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- and started to bring also public domain books under their rule system
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- while at the same time owning up to 90% of the commercial market
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I'm pretty sure those numbers are heavily debated, not that it matters, because 90% isn't everything.
But as I said, it is irrelevant, because Amazon isn't quite there, no matter how much B&N, Kobo, iBooks, GPB, etc. try to hand Amazon the market.
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But in the end it is all for the greater good of the author, who will get paid the promise of an increased bottom line, because piracy is still allowed to exist and the user, because they did it to provide higher resolution pictures on the iPaid. Mainly. Certainly.
So they destroyed what Gutenberg invented (democratization of the production of books), and all was good - because almost no one proclaimed to notice, so sad - the story just couldnt be told in 150 characters or less.
The end.
(But we got Spotify, Instagram and Uber to show for it - yes, we truly are the smart generation. One click! Patented.
It's almost over now.)
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