Comments on: A Chilling Irony

By: Zach

Zach — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:21:30 +0000

I think it’s ridiculous that they can delete it, especially 1984. Apparently, Big Brother is truly watching… It’d be like Apple being able to delete songs from your Ipod because they think you got the song illegally.My favorite line from the article was this, “Retailers of physical goods cannot, of course, force their way into a customer’s home to take back a purchase, no matter how bootlegged it turns out to be. Yet Amazon appears to maintain a unique tether to the digital content it sells for the Kindle.”

Along the lines of your question though, there’s no way I’d spend $259.00 on a book reader. I love to read real books where I can underline and write in the margin.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 19:23:59 +0000

Books smell better. I would never get a Kindle because it smells like a computer and not like a book. .-= Richard´s last blog... Perception =-.

By: Pete Leighton

Pete Leighton — Wed, 07 Oct 2009 18:15:24 +0000

My first thought was, a company as big as Amazon didn’t take a moment to verify suppliers permissions before release? Really…? So no problem, just delete everyones copy and move on. Because of the specific subject of that book and what is happening in our world at the moment, I am not feeling the love of freedom in America, but rather Paranoia in paradise!
How many times have we sent an email to the wrong person at the wrong time and tried to frantically grab our PC screen to try to stop it? Guess Amazon employees don’t have that problem.
I will be sticking to hard copies personally!