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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 [...] I think I’ll be going back to using Powell’s Books and Biblio.com for my book links for a while, and maybe permanently. … [...] To say this is an abomination of abominations is making it sound like a church picnic. This marketing-targetting-attacking-people-with-advertising is getting so out of hand, I doubt it will be long before they’re demanding the right to put advertisements on the insides of our eyelids so we can’t even escape their money-grubbing pocket-robbing shouting that way. … [...] Such a to-do about ebooks lately! First, the less controversial stuff. As Publisher’s Weekly reports, the RAND Corporation has lowered the price of its ebooks to $9.95 (I presume US dollars) across the board. It sounds like this is a response to complaints that have been heard more and more loudly, recently, that the general [...] |
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