RE: kindle account problem

Using non-Amazon content is all well and good if that's what you 
planned. But considerably more of a problem if your actual plan 
was to buy ebooks from Amazon for the Kindle. In that case, an 
account cancellation just turned your Kindle into a brick. And 
should your Kindle break, it appears that Amazon will not 
consider returns on your device. A broken Kindle won't display 
any content at all.

As for the MobiPocket Reader titles - plain is likely OK, but if 
you are using encrypted MobiPocket titles - Amazon has been 
actively working to block the software that people use to 
determine their secure MobiPocket PID, needed for encrypted 
MobiPocket titles.

All in all - Amazon appears to be doing a better job of showing 
the demerits of DRM than Cory Doctorow does, while simultaneously 
showing the downside to the customer of an almost-monopoly 
vendor.



On Thu, 16 Apr 2009, Richard Seltzer wrote:

> It's extremely easy to transfer plain text (.txt) and MobiPocket Reader
> (.prc) files to your Kindle.
> People who purchase my book collections on CD and DVD do so all the time.
> (Those files are in .txt). See details at
> http://samizdat.stores.yahoo.net/kindle.html
>
> I've read about 100 books on my Kindle since I bought it a year and a half
> ago and I have yet to buy a book wirelessly from their store.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: joseph harris
>> Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2009 10:53 AM
>> Subject: [ebook-community] kindle account problem
>>
>> When Amazon ends an account that includes the kindle!
>>
>> http://www.boingboing.net/2009/04/15/if-you-lose-your-ama.html
>> The original post is here, if you can get to it
>> http://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=41020


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