Thread: Amazon behaving badly (again)
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Old 04-15-2018, 03:29 AM   #104
Josieb1
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Originally Posted by Sarmat89 View Post
Those are not your "purchases". You bought a license to use a surrogate of a book for a finite amount of time that Amazon exists. The files you download are the Amazon's property.
Whilst technically you are correct, morally I disagree. I ‘Buy’ an ebook, just like I ‘Buy’ a audiobook. If I couldn’t liberate them I wouldn’t buy them.

The idea of only buying licences for digital items is archaic and should be changed as so much is now digital. I don’t buy anything digital I can’t keep and store. That’s why I won’t buy digital movies or TV programs. If I wanted to just borrow items (which is what buying a licence basically means) i’d join a library.

And back to “Amazon behaving badly”. I’ve seen the worst side of them and I don’t agree I deserved it, so now I don’t trust them and never will again, and that affects my purchases with them.

They want to be trusted, and to be the only shop we ever use, that won’t ever happen unless they start to be more transparent in their dealings with those they persevere as difficult or unwanted customers.
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