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Re: What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?

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Post by unparagoned » Thu, Jul 09, 2026, 7:00 PM UTC

ah1508 wrote: post #62

mjhay wrote: post #7

Buying the physical book from Amazon isn’t a great way to stick it to Bezos. Just have your local bookstore order it for you, it’s easy.

I agree, easy and much more pleasant. Walk down the street, go into the bookshop (which is by essence a place in 3D, much more pleasant than a screen), search for a book, find it, turn a few pages, chat with the seller or with someone else interested by a book you liked, buy the book you came for, and another one you did not plan to buy, stop somewhere to drink a coffee, open the first few pages, etc... How can a web…

It’s pretty much impossible to buy half the books I want.

Re: What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?

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Post by Wingman4l7 » Fri, Jul 10, 2026, 3:24 PM UTC

bogrollben wrote: post #34

I have an older kindle and I can still load it with epubs by emailing the unique kindle address. I think there are other ways too, via USB for example. My understanding is that it's only downloading via the amazon kindle store that is no longer supported for devices that are considered end-of-life, which makes sense to me personally. The kindle web browser is probably based on an ancient android version of chrome. Th…

It is indeed trivial to "side-load" ebooks onto an older Kindle; you plug it in via USB and drop the files into, IIRC, the "/documents" directory.

Kindle, for many years and I think even now, does not actually support EPUB, for likely unethical reasons you can probably guess; I believe the Kindle email address method hides a conversion to the AZW / AZW3 format.

Re: What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?

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Post by badgersnake » Sat, Jul 11, 2026, 9:35 AM UTC

lstodd wrote: post #70

shimman wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Publishers aren't as evil compared to big tech. Maybe a random lieutenant of hell versus Lucifer's advisor here. You can also buy DRM free self-published books quite easily nowadays. Amazon doesn't have a monopoly on e-commerce, not yet at least.

> Publishers aren't as evil compared to big tech. Haha yes, they are even more evil en masse.

I don’t think that’s even possible.

Re: What does Jeff Bezos think is going to happen?

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Post by badgersnake » Tue, Jul 14, 2026, 9:48 PM UTC

saaaaaam wrote: post #65

badgersnake wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Or just buy an actual book from and independent bookshop.

That’s fine if you have one near to you, don’t have mobility issues that make it hard to visit or accessibility issues that make book print hard to read. And it stocks the kinds of books you want to read. Without being all woke about it, indie book stores can be great if you like reading the sorts of books your particular local flavour of indie book stores stocks.

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