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Originally Posted by Timboli
I respect your right to do anything you feel you need to ... within reason of course.
That said, why exactly did you feel the need to nuke your account?
Couldn't you have just left it alone, and just not used it?
That would seem far simpler and smarter to me.
Perhaps one day, there will be a reason for you to regret nuking it.
We never know what the future may bring.
I too dislike Amazon at times, especially in regard to Kindle ebooks, but I would never nuke my account, even if I stopped using it for years.
No doubt you feel you are making some kind of statement, one that Amazon are unlikely to notice I reckon ... though perhaps a bean counter somewhere.
It does rather have a feeling of being impulsive about it though. That you have thrown caution to the wind, to pretty much just yell at the Moon.
Your purchases at Amazon are on an official record, and for whatever reason that may have come in handy one day.
It's not impossible for DRM to go away. Look at what happened with the music industry.
Or what if many authors eventually decide that Amazon Kindle is the safer place to provide their ebooks to? Kobo and others would then be playing catch up, and trying to regain lost customers, and providers who may no longer trust them.
Personally I think one should remain flexible and keep their options open ... but hey, each to their own ... hope you don't regret it.
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Amazon is just a company, there isn't anything on Amazon I couldn't buy somewhere else instead. I don't know whether it's clever marketing on Amazons part or maybe a cultural thing but I truly don't understand where this fear of leaving Amazon comes from. They are just a shop, a shop with a terrible reputation, nothing more, nothing less.
As for my leaving not making a difference to Amazon, no of course it doesn't but that's not why I left, it's having something called principles, something that people used to put more stock in. Amazon are operating in a way I personally think is wrong, I don't like the ethics of the company so why would I support them?
I asked for my account to be deleted for simple safety reasons, I don't want my details left with a company I won't be using anymore, just good housekeeping to my mind
