pogue.blogs.nytimes.com— Amazon removed purchased e-books from Kindles when a publisher had second thoughts about online distribution.
Jul 17, 2009View in Crawl 4
I think you're looking at the wrong technology for that. Television and movies are far more powerful political tools than books. Saturate people with pointless media, and they won't take the time to read anything even if they have it. In fact socialist propaganda movies and TV shows in the US are becoming frighteningly common. They're usually in the form of fake documentaries like Al Gore's or Micheal Moore's stuff.If you've read Fahrenheit 451, it's actually not about government burning books like people that haven't read it seem to think. It's about people willingly burning their books because of television saturation. If you want irony, a movie version of Fahrenheit 451 is it.
If you've got a big screen mobile phone with a decent amount of memory or a memory card slot, just download reader software and use that.It's less cumbersome, you always have it on you (presumably), and it shouldn't cost you anything (well, maybe a couple of bucks).
buckrogers1965Jul 17, 2009
Winston, we want you to rewrite purchase orders on a certain book. Make it as if those purchases never happened.
4antistupidJul 17, 2009
I think you're looking at the wrong technology for that. Television and movies are far more powerful political tools than books. Saturate people with pointless media, and they won't take the time to read anything even if they have it. In fact socialist propaganda movies and TV shows in the US are becoming frighteningly common. They're usually in the form of fake documentaries like Al Gore's or Micheal Moore's stuff.If you've read Fahrenheit 451, it's actually not about government burning books like people that haven't read it seem to think. It's about people willingly burning their books because of television saturation. If you want irony, a movie version of Fahrenheit 451 is it.
celotilJul 17, 2009
If you've got a big screen mobile phone with a decent amount of memory or a memory card slot, just download reader software and use that.It's less cumbersome, you always have it on you (presumably), and it shouldn't cost you anything (well, maybe a couple of bucks).
andy_dJul 18, 2009
<a class="user" href="http://digg.com/gadgets/Why_Amazon_went_Big_Brother_on_some_Kindle_e_books">http://digg.com/gadgets/Why_Amazon_went_Big_Brothe ...</a>The Why and what they are going to do about it.
breadfredJul 18, 2009
f**king thing sucks.
jfallon126Jul 18, 2009
Yet another reason I won't be getting a Kindle. Only appropriate:<a class="user" href="http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/9/">http://penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/3/9/</a>
robotbuddhaJul 19, 2009
The anarchist's cookbook is s**t anyway. Always has been, always will be.
reddog_x2000Jul 20, 2009
Wow, Amazon screwed up big time. This is going to cause a huge amount of bad PR. And, sadly, it's going to hurt sales of e-books and e-book readers.