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Do you think these publishers won’t end up at a point where they’ll only allow us to read an ebook a certain number of times, even though we’ve legitimately purchased it and put on our readers?? Don’t be naive. [...] I think I’ll watch out for true, educated, thoughtful Experts from now on. And maybe the occasional personal review on book blogs where the writer is just talking about books they like, and has nothing at stake. [...] Go. Read. Celebrate the freedom! [...] I might pick one of those evil, harmful books like The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. Or the Bible. Or, for that matter, the Qur’an. [...] It’s about time we stopped people trying to turn our young women back into 1950s helpless little man-dominated wifies. [...]
AmazonFail I hate hate hate empires, and those who try to build them and force people to be enslaved to them. Therefore as of today I am starting to remove Amazon links and affliliate crap from this blog. Have a look at the Library Thing blog, and read about how Amazon [...] This has me so horrified I can’t even write about it. [...] AmazonFail Yegods. Every day now, Amazon is up to something nasty again. It’s hard to keep up. And I’d really rather write about good stuff. From Pogue’s Posts in the New York Times, “Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others:” This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a [...] You know, I don’t even go looking for this stuff about Amazon, but it just seems to be busting out all over, lately. I keep thinking, as I watch this sort of thing happening more and more, “Who do they think they are — General Motors??” (Meaning, of course, the old General Motors before [...] |
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