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Originally Posted by Rizla
I disagree with that. Noimp's response to HarryT was a precise analysis of HarryT's post. How can that be an ad hominem attack?
If it is an ad hominem attack, then HarryT must be attacking himself  |
Well, not counting his casual dismissal of anyone unable to follow a byzantine disorganized post as a "reddit user" and "[...] dont just repeat one liners. Thats what reddit is for."
And not counting the general impression I get, that he believes
anyone who isn't just as concerned about Amazon as he is, is an idiot who has a 150-character attention span and would rather spend their time on Instagram and Spotify than pay attention to the Sacred Legacy of Gutenberg.
Think of the children!
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HarryT was making an excellent wonderful point.
Vote with your wallet. Convince others of your ways.
And that suggestion is not equivalent to "tell[ing] me to leave the topic".
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Originally Posted by Rizla
That's a counter to noimp's position.
But I suspect noimp is not only talking about the current situation, but how he sees it going into the future. Hence his "fable" and the (future) control of public domain material via format dominance. As I understand him, he sees the potential of a closed file format becoming the de facto standard in the future, and solely controlled by Amazon.
Amazon was named after the biggest river in the world to express its ideal and goal of supremacy in the markets of its choice. Noimp is interpreting Amazon's increasing control of electronic publishing and distribution in the context of Amazon's own stated ambition: Market domination. So I think there us nothing very debatable on that point. It's a given, and is the way you would expect any extremely competent large company to function. It is interesting to watch how Amazon is attempting to attain its goal. For the most part I don't see anything controversial in noimp's analysis of Amazon's strategy.
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Oh my. Because Amazon wants to be the dominant seller of commercial ebooks therefore all Public Domain books will one day be ONLY available in KFX.
I'm terrified already.