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Originally Posted by stevenmoy
So, chill. We are individuals have high integrity, right?
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I wish we were.
Kindle's are not marketed overseas. The Kindle App for iPhone is only sold in the US store to US residents.
Ever ask "Why?"
Amazon has secured digital publication rights for the ebooks they sell in the US only.
Go look here on Mobileread and see how many non-US residents are absolutely tickled pink to be able to jailbreak their iPhones and grab Kindle content off them?
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Originally Posted by stevenmoy
So, chill. We are individuals have high integrity, right?
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By their glee and their actions: apparently not.
Intellectually the only difference I see between them and the looting that occurred of damaged homes during the recent flooding here in the Pacific Northwest is more people were outraged. People got there were real victims of the violations of property rights. Here I have a long line of apologists that seem to think it's all victimless: no hungry babies. Heck some people might even say the looters had every right to take stuff: home owners should have taken more steps to protect their stuff.
So no dude, no chill, no more violations, no more raping the fabric of society. If the rights holder wanted the ebook to work on the other platform they'd allow it. Best example is the Kindle on iPhone, Amazon has expanded the platform to non-Amazon hardware. I think it a remarkable sign of faith well invested in Amazon.
No one is pointing a gun at your head and making you buy Kindle editions that don't work on whatever else thingy you want to use them on.
So please, take your own advice: chill. Leave your wallet in your pants and write Amazon and ask them to support your thingy. Maybe you'll get to pull your wallet out soon. But if we tear the platform down in our impatience there will be no more content on the shelves.
As I've said in other postings. As with the flood victims, the point is not how well protected the goods are. The point is: you aren't supposed to take them. Does a man have to pop out of a rice bowl next to you and pop a cap on you to keep you from taking something? (to paraphrase
Pulp Fiction)
I ask because that seems to be the strength of your argument in support of my needing to "chill".