UPDATED |
|
scream-of-consciousness; "If you're trying to change minds and influence people it's probably not a good idea to say that virtually all elected Democrats are liars, but what the hell."
UPDATED |
|
"If the number of Islamic terror attacks continues at the current rate, candlelight vigils will soon be the number-one cause of global warming. " |
This will be the comment box |
.
What's to stop Kindle from surreptitiously abridging my books to conform with changing political winds? And, does this mean I don't own the books "bought" from Amazon? That needs some fixing.
Although I'm using the first person, I do not own a Kindle, so may not know all there is about this.
.
I don't own a Kindle so I'm totally green on ALL this, but wouldn't there be contracts involved and can someone change their mind and require Amazon to remove things which were ok'd by agreement?..... Something fishy here...More to this than meets the nose........ I suppose they made them take down "Little Black Sambo" as well. LOL q:-)
I tried to send you this this morning. Sent it to Sondra at KisP.
http://deaddogwalkin.blogspot.com/2009/07/kindle-flame.html
Tanks k-nine - I updated the post. Your example indicates something bit more nefarious. We;ll soon see, as this problem is bound to get lots of traction.
You don't have to burn books when everything is digital, they just "disappear"
Don't forget that Google is busy digitizing a lot of works.
Once you control the information, you control the people.
see The Right To Read by Richard Stallman
You can still find 1984 and the rest of Orwell's works here. For free.
I just turned on my Kindle wifi for the first time since they deleted the books. I do use the Kindle daily, but it's so full of unread books that it's not uncommon to leave the wifi off for a week or more.
My copies of both 1984 and Animal Farm are still extant, even an hour after turning on the wifi. However, I'm quite sure I didn't pay a nickel for them. They are out of copyright and available for a free download elsewhere. Apparently Amazon is only deleting the copies bought from them, after the publisher complained.
Although Ayn Rand's "Anthem" has been available since Oct 2008, when I first looked, "Atlas Shrugged" was never offered. I looked, and even remember commenting to a friend that there's a lot of unavailable books, with that and "LoTR" specifically mentioned. (Bonus to me: I just verified both of those books. "Atlas" is still unavailable, but LoTR is now offered, at a very reasonble price. I just downloaded the free sample.)
I've done a bit of research. Follow this link to get a history of "Atlas Shrugged" comments on the Amazon boards. It seems that an illegal copy got uploaded, and was deleted once caught by Amazon.
All I can offer is that my story is not anecdotal, but first hand. I know what I saw and I know what the Amazon response was.
What I really want to see is evidence that even one single liberal or non-conservative title has been treated this way. That and that alone will put my conspiracy thoery to rest.