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Originally Posted by thibaulthalpern
I find it rather, well, odd that anyone should "plan to be a lifelong customer." Under what social obligation is there that any customer should be or ought to be a lifelong customer? If we believe that we should be a lifelong customer to a corporation, in which western ideology has made into the likes of a person with rights and values, then we are falling for a belief that is untenable.
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Agreed.
And yes, I'm sorry to hear about this, too.
Surely Ian's crummy experience with Amazon is a reminder: what Amazon has set up is a kind of book feudalism. Bezos is lord and one is the Kindle renter-peasant. Read the Amazon license terms;
nasty.
DRM is a blight on digital books but Amazon's unique mischief has now raised the ante.