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Originally Posted by notimp
First the usual playful antagonization - "hard to understand" is a euphemism for "hard to put into one camp or the other".
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You bring genuine debate where there generally is none. Well done!
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To explain my position -
I contemplate - that by increasing intellectual ownership over the entire production (the analogy is "printing the master copy") and distribution chain with .kfx - Amazon is overreaching its promoted role as a "distributer" and "manager/facilitator" on the sector.
Its intent with .kfx is not to distribute works of culture, it is to own them (even in "a new sense" if you must), and to control every (to them business related) aspect of them.
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I have mixed feelings on the subject. Consider Apple: They created an "ecosystem" that allowed the monetization of digital music downloads. They did that by creating a walled-garden. I'm not sure what else they could have done it.
Amazon is doing a similar thing with ebooks. It's not an ideal solution, but what other solution is there?
One alternative is the group of retailers in Germany who use the Tolino software as a delivery system. I prefer this to the American model which is practically a monopoly (queue screaming definitions of "monopoly." Actually it's a fun board-game grammarians).
Anyway, what can you do? I do wish Amazon would actually innovate from their stupendously dominant market position. But they don't care about hardware innovation. They dumped the DX. OMG they brought back buttons
Their e-readers have made little progress and they have become the champion of the low-price throwaway tablet. Also their software is deplorably and unnecessarily limited. They don't want to push the field, and they are blocking others from doing so. But that's another story.