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Old 07-03-2009, 12:33 AM   #32
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Originally Posted by Ham88 View Post
I think the only concerning matter is what if, in the future, amazon loses the rights to a book, what happens to everybody that bought it?
This has already happened and if a book is pulled, the people who bought it still have access to it.

The Stand by Stephen King was pulled for months and still I was able to redownload it during the time it was unavailable.
Boyd Morrison's books were pulled from the Amazon store and others still have access to them.

(A few) people are blowing this way out of proportion.

A pirated book was uploaded by some guy and when Amazon found out (keep in mind that 3000+ books are uploaded a day to the Kindle store and that anybody can upload to the store), they pulled it along with refunding everybody.

Trying to what if... this or spin Amazon into some crazy Big Brother conspiracy is crazy since there has only been two instances of Amazon actually removing files from a Kindle.

1) Pirated book is uploaded by somebody.
2) Non-payment for Whispernet delivery/conversion.

That's it

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Originally Posted by doreenjoy View Post
And I don't see what the ownership of a certain brand of reader has to do with anything. I used to own a Kindle, now I don't. That shouldn't mean I'm not entitled to voice my opinion on any thread.
Because they seem to mostly be nothing more than thinly-veiled attacks against Amazon or Kindle instead of actually discussing the topic at hand?

Last edited by Sporadic; 07-03-2009 at 12:39 AM.
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