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Joe Konrath has his Zombie Meme’s. And now Mobileread has its very own Zombie thread! A thread that will just not die, despite the weight of rational argument against the OP’s arguments. Just when you think this thread is dead and buried and turn your back, the OP posts again and it rises, shambling, from its grave. This miracle is achieved not by voodoo or black magic but via the simple expedient of posting the same discredited arguments again as if they are new and uncontradicted. Because the OP rarely if ever engages with a counter-argument, in the apparent expectation that if such counter-arguments are ignored and your own arguments repeated often enough and loudly enough the counter-arguments will simply go away. Or perhaps if a long enough gap is left before posting again, we will all forget the uncontradicted counter-arguments. Reading the OP’s latest resurrection post one would think that none of the preceding discussion had ever occurred. I think the vast majority of us would prefer that this be a forum for rational argument and discussion, not prejudice and preaching.

@notimp. Amazon is not a monopoly! KFX, like Adobe’s new DRM, is a matter for concern. But the sky is not falling now. And this cultural development guardian type argument seems to me to be little more than a pretixt to protect vested interests at the expense of the consumer. Amazon is probably better and certainly no worse than the large publishers so far as preservation of culture is concerned, unless you limit culture to require a plethora of protected bricks and mortar bookstores. And the issue of “plurality of public opinion”, as you put it, has been somewhat topical with the recent Authors United sham debate. It is simply ridiculous to argue that legacy publishing, which rejected 99% of works submitted to them, is better for the free expression of ideas and optinions than publishing with Amazon, which allows virtually anyone to publish. Please feel free even now to actually engage.

@Rizla. Nice to see you make your appearance in this thread with the ridiculous proposition that lending is the same as a sale or, for that matter, a permanent or indefinite license.