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Well, 6charlong, you paint a grim future, and if it were to play out that Amazon succeeded in getting completely exclusive rights to books, only with their proprietary DRm which could only be read on a Kindle... that would be a complete nightmare worthy of a lot of dissension.
But I don't see that happening, and we are no where near that now. If Alexie's comments are meant to foster rejection of ereaders because of that concern, then it is complete nonsense.
But as others have stated, it has gained him a bit of notoriety. But mostly with ebook readers, and his notoriety is not likely to translate into book sales from these readers.
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