Amazon Kindle, Amazon Feedback
I’ve already posted on why I think Amazon’s Kindle is a bad idea(tm), but while going to post feedback on their site (ok, it’s a slow day here) I reviewed some of their 1-star ratings and saw a very eloquent comment to which I had nothing to add. So I commented the commenter, thanking him and decided to post a link to his Kindle Comment and reprint some of it here for your viewing pleasure. By the way – for those of you who don’t know – Jeff Bezos is the founder, President and CEO of Amazon.
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700 of 1,045 people found the following review helpful:
 The future of reading, December 4, 2007 The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/11/19/the-future-of-reading
Act I: The act of buying
When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
– Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author’s Guild, 2002
You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
– Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007 |
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Read the rest of the post at Amazon. Then don’t buy the Kindle. Please.
Note: You can’t read the rest of the post anymore, I think it aged out of the system.
The Kindle is actually quite classy; it’s like a convergence of old school and new school technology
Joe,
I admit the technology is sexy – one of the things I hate about the Kindle is that it is _almost_ good but it missed the mark and widely.
If only they didn’t abridge the books, if only they let you buy the books instead of license them, if only they didn’t monitor the usage of the books!
If they had avoided these mistakes I would be reading my kindle every day.
As it stands, though, I’ll wait until something better comes along. Then again, who knows. I don’t buy DVDs, either. I rent those. I wonder if it’s the same?