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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
You're certain that's your main reason? Because attributing something to malice that's easily explained by incompetence, the slow grinding wheels of workplace bureaucracy--or any other number of non-malicious possibilities, really--seems a bit myopic.
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It appears that you did not read my post before responding to it. I will quote the words I wrote that make your words above look rather ignorant:
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Originally Posted by haertig
"Intentional" is not a synonym for "malicious". It could just be misguided logic. Or it could be just a stupid thing to do, that they didn't think through initially.
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The only myopic thing I see here is your rush to denigrate my comments, and while attempting to do so, making yourself look foolish.
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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
What's the financial benefit for greedy, evil Amazon in purposely deleting side-loaded books from the devices of the miniscule number of users who sideload books AND leave their WiFi off for large swathes of time?
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I didn't say that they did.
But there is indeed a motive that might conceivably fit the scenario. It is exhibited by this quote from a forum member posting in this very thread:
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Originally Posted by TheSmitty
However, all my books are bought from Amazon so it is not an issue for me.
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The statement above implies that if you buy only from Amazon, you will not have to worry about content deletion. Surely you can imagine how that practice might create some financial benefit for Amazon?