The Cult of Kindle? Are we there yet?

[mrkai]

Originally Posted by Ervserver

If I end up buying the Sony reader I'll probably not install the Sony software

...I would in fact not buy the Sony. I would get something that supported the Mobipocket format.

Unless at the turn of the year Sony sphincter's something mindblowing, i think they are done really as far as commercial sales and whatnot goes.

(The Following is not to be misconstrued as advocacy. Thanks in advance)

Unless a widespread way becomes available to purchase "premium" books from somewhere else and make them work on sony's gear, that is. The way the business models for these readers and the epub market is tho, outside of that, I see nothing good in sony's future, sadly.

[mrkai]

Originally Posted by Alisa

I have to admit I had a little chuckle that he's a Sony *cough*rootkit*cough* customer.

...which is where the problem really comes from in this regard.

And if you know *anything* about Sony, you'd know that Sony is quite a mess I've never seen a company fight itself amongst its divided parts in quite the way Sony does,

I guess that's what happens tho when you let a movie company effectively take over a CE company from within, huh?

[mrkai]

Originally Posted by Alisa

That doesn't quite follow that anything you load on your Kindle that isn't purchased from Amazon is therefore regarded by them as stolen.

...to get "premium" content onto the Kindle without buying it from Amazon and their TOS doesn't leave room for you to debate this, does it?

-K

[mrkai]

Originally Posted by tsgreer

Did you invent the Sony Reader or something? Why are you so anti-Kindle?

Where did you get that?

Originally Posted by tsgreer

Actually the Kindle wasn't designed for just Amazon-bought content. That's why it supports non-DRM'd mobi files and .txt files and converts several other non-DRM'd formats for free.

Nor did I say this either.

I *said* it was designed for Amazon bought *premium* content and there is no indication of anything else...is there?

There is certainly indication in a very tangible way to the contrary in fact. Hence the tool we discuss in another thread to circumvent this...issue.

The rest of this I leave to Martin Niemöller...

-K

[Alisa]

Originally Posted by mrkai

...to get "premium" content onto the Kindle without buying it from Amazon and their TOS doesn't leave room for you to debate this, does it?

-K

Actually you didn't specify "premium" content in your original post. You said anything they sell. They sell quite a few public domain works. They're inexpensive, usually $2.50 or so. I'm guessing that's not what you mean by "premium". Thanks for somewhat clarifying.

[mrkai]

Originally Posted by Alisa

Actually you didn't specify "premium" content in your original post. You said anything they sell. They sell quite a few public domain works. They're inexpensive, usually $2.50 or so. I'm guessing that's not what you mean by "premium". Thanks for somewhat clarifying.

Yeah...there are several versions of this conversation going on all over mobileread and I think this was the oldest one I was engaged in and was not specific whereas in others I made this more clear.

I meant "locked premium content that they sell".