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Originally Posted by braver
Absolutely correct. To keep pushing any material-material pseudo-analogy instead of material-digital one is to intentionally ignore and disrespect the topic at hand. I understand it can be done once or twice, but since it has been answered in this thread several times -- as inadmissible -- any repetition is no longer appropriate, for the original thread purposes. Start your own, comrades.
MacMiner, as a fellow ex-Eastern Blocker, understands what I'm alluding to very well. After perusing this forum, I've come to realize that the kolkhoz mentality here is very strong -- the kulak being Amazon, and the kindle-less unwashed masses, especially European ebook-peasantry, trying to make it disgorge its ill-gotten American capitalist gains. Never mind Amazon in fact invented and built the majority of the ideas and infrastructure which makes Kindle the king, and maintains it very well.
The negative response to a very clear and unambiguous idea, distorted by many a lying kolkhoznik here -- I never said "give," always mentioning discounts instead -- shows the traits of those typical kolkhozniks very clearly:
-- not owning a Kindle but loving to disparage it
-- demanding radical changes from Amazon, instead of building your own store, device, and negotiating your own rights
-- distorting material vs. digital arguments by irrelevant, misleading, and downright dishonest comparison to material vs. material upgrades
-- distorting the discount issue into freebie scarecrow
-- avoiding the key fact that Amazon, B&N and small web publishers for the first time in history do have the way to prove physical purchases, upgrade to ebooks, and do it in an economical way
-- not understanding how the actual digital upgrade provided by Amazon already works
Those kolkhozniks who keep repeating themselves while fitting the above description hardly can have much left to contribute, I'm afraid. On the other hand, it's good to see some reasonable folks showing up. Not all is lost in this kolkhoz of a forum.
Just as a matter of courtesy to fellow readers, I'd appreciate if those who don't know how the actual digital upgarde works right now do not bother to argue here.
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Trolls have nothing to contribute to this forum either.
Cheers,
PKFFW