Archive for July 21st, 2009
Another Reason NOT to Buy an Amazon Kindle
Farhad Manjoo of Slate’s online news service reports that several Amazon Kindle customers had books deleted from their eReaders in a sweeping move by the online retailer here’s a comment that should make you take notice:
As our media libraries get converted to 1’s and 0’s, we are at risk of losing what we take for granted today: full ownership of our book and music and movie collections.
You can read the entire column here.
As an owner of a Sony Reader, I’m more convinced I made the right choice in purchasing the Sony Reader over the Amazon Kindle. The Kindle’s connectedness to the internet, which is built in on all models, can be a great convenience to owners but in this case, it highlights a clear flaw; that you could lose your purchases at any time without your knowledge. I’m sure this technology applies to all readers but at least with the Sony Reader, you disconnect the product from the internet when you are done purchasing a product.
Amazon’s explanation was that they accidentally sold some pirated ebooks and that might be legitimate but what assurances do we have in the future that ANY entity might be able to utlize this technology to control devices that we pay for and products we install legitimately?
Something to think about!
