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Should ebook users have any rights?
jaden:
Remote deletion already happened on the Kindle. Here's the NY Times article about it: Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
Renegade:
Remote deletion already happened on the Kindle. Here's the NY Times article about it: Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
-jaden (February 28, 2011, 07:02 PM)
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Justin Gawronski, a 17-year-old from the Detroit area, was reading “1984” on his Kindle for a summer assignment and lost all his notes and annotations when the file vanished. “They didn’t just take a book back, they stole my work,” he said.
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Kid has a very good point there. I wish that he'd pressed criminal charges against Amazon. A conviction would send a message that I think is needed.
wraith808:
Remote deletion already happened on the Kindle. Here's the NY Times article about it: Amazon Erases Orwell Books From Kindle
-jaden (February 28, 2011, 07:02 PM)
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Well, yes. But my question was the kindle apps. You know, for the PC, iPhone, Android... do they have the same sort of hooks in there? Is it the Kindle as an e-book platform, or the Kindle as a hardware platform?
zridling:
Just because ebooks are in a digital format doesn't mean they should be treated with the same restrictions that govern OSX or MS Windows. You can't buy those, only license them. I don't want rent-a-book, I want own-a-book in a format I can take to any device, anytime, anywhere. In other words, the same liberties I have with a paperback.
superboyac:
Just because ebooks are in a digital format doesn't mean they should be treated with the same restrictions that govern OSX or MS Windows. You can't buy those, only license them. I don't want rent-a-book, I want own-a-book in a format I can take to any device, anytime, anywhere. In other words, the same liberties I have with a paperback.
-zridling (February 28, 2011, 10:39 PM)
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This is not necessarily a <good> solution. But why not buy the hardcover, and download the pdf's for your devices? I just did that for Calvin and Hobbes collection, which I have every single version including the latest complete one. But now I can read it on my ipad in a coffee shop (those books are HUGE).
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