VaMage

July 24, 2009 at 1:14pm

I admit, I am a bibliophile. Even given my addiction, I can think of nothing that could make me pay hundereds of dollars for the ability to read a book, something I've had myself since before I can remember, and then pay that company for books, that they in turn can take back from me any time they wish, for any reason they wish.

I'm not just talking about the recent boondoggle, remember a while back some guy RETURNED too many products to Amazon, at least to suit Amazon, defective products at that, and products that had nothing to do with his Kindle-books, only to find that his entire Kindle library had gone POOF. Sure, after Amazon caught enough bad press over it they gave him back his property, which is like asking me to be grateful to a thief that returns my wallet.

What the major corporations have all learned is that sooner or later the press gets bored with such incidents, and once the press goes they move right back into the most draconian practices we fools will put up with, and still pay them for the privlege of being screwed by.

Case in point, the entire software industry, but gaming more then any other part, steals from us on a daily basis by releasing garbage they KNOW doesn't work, but because of the no returns policy they can get away with. I often seriously wonder what the cash value of the thefts of the software industry is, and if they don't exceed that of the pirates by an order of magnitude.

So, until Amazon, and the publishing industry makes a Kindle book purchase identical to the 7 new books I bought from Barnes & Noble this week, they can not so quietly go to HELL.

 VaMage

American by Birth, But Southern by the Grace of God.