"Tom Francis - SWSports" wrote in
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On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:12:48 -0500, Jim wrote:

Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:27:00 -0500, Jim wrote:

Anyone have one?

Wouldn't give you a dime for either one of them.

Personally, if I want to buy a book, I'll take paper instead of
plastic. I don't want some publisher deciding that I don't own the
book anymore and it gets deleted from my Kindle without even knowing
about it.

Besides, the costs are about the same for paper vs plastic anyway. So
what's the point?

Two good points.
Do they actually delete stuff off the Kindle at their discretion?

They have in the past - Orwell's "1984" oddly enough. :)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/te.../18amazon.html

Electronic copyright issues are going to become the big issue in the
next couiple of years - I don't want to suddenly wake up one morning
and find a book I'm halfway through gone because some author or
publisher got a hair across.

Plus, you can't give the book away once you're done with it, sell it
to somebody else - anything.

It's not a great idea in my opinion. You may save a couple of bucks
and some time downloading, but once it's in your Kindle, then what do
you do with it?

Wonder what is happening on the suit about Kindle and Orwell. Some
university student, in the middle of the semester, with all the notes
annotated for a thesis, woke up to no book or notes. He is suing. Hope he
wins big.