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Originally Posted by radiationman
I'm seriously considering returning my Kindle. I'm still within the 30 day window. I'll get a 505 instead.
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My sister and I share an Amazon account with our Kindles on it. She bought a Kindle for her daughter last summer and I'm buying one for my daughter this summer.
I'll admit to being angry with Amazon over this situation, but I'm still going to be a customer. At this point in time, I'm not interested in getting library books to read on my Kindle, so that's not an issue for me. I'm hoping that very soon Amazon will address the issue of library loaners on Kindles -- particularly since there are *SO MANY* Kindles out there and many people are very interested in borrowing eBooks through the library. And, after retirement, I may need to rely on the library more than purchasing books.
I'm buying current-release books from Amazon because the prices are so much lower. When I shop elsewhere, I only buy DRM-free books. And if a book is available elsewhere in a DRM-free format for a price close to that charged at Amazon, I'm going to buy it from the other store.
In the 13 months that I've owned a Kindle, we've "bought" 124 books from Amazon. I have to put "bought" into quotes because 66 of the books were purchased for $0.00 -- completely free. The most expensive book was $9.99, and 25 were under $5.00. I've read 50 of the books that I've downloaded from Amazon, so there are plenty more books available for me to read as time permits.
And, when Amazon made a mistake and put the $0.00 price on the wrong book in the Settling Accounts series by Harry Turtledove (which I quickly bought), they didn't come to me and say "oops, we shouldn't have allowed you to get that book for free". It's still on my download page. All-in-all, Amazon has been fair to me.
I don't know who it was at Amazon who turned the lawyers loose on MobileRead. I don't know their motivations, though I do have some suspicions. I think it was a very poor move on their part, particularly since the letter from Amazon arrived on the very same day that MobileRead was announcing the winner of a K2 in the first-ever MobileRead give-away. Amazon is getting some very bad press. They will lose some customers. It didn't have to be this way, either. I'll be interested in any response that Amazon provides to those reporters who have contacted them asking for a statement.