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What about something like "Capital in the 21st Century"?
Despite the unfortunate name, that book presents some interesting empirical work. The theoretical side less so. The original "Capital" is nonsense. It's very interesting to me that presenting an incoherent argument, and insisting that anyone who doesn't understand it is ignorant, is a highly successful debating tactic.
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It is technically dift to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on. Not since encryption has been invented. Firefox syncs currently open tabs and other stuff without letting Mozilla know about them.
Encryption is a waste of complexity and battery life here. Firefox encrypts your history and open tabs because those are sensitive. A page number in a book is not.
And regarding battery life, even a CPU much weaker than the one used by the original Kindle can encrypt at 1MB/s, so encrypting a couple of KB is absolutely negligible.
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
I wish they would at least share that data with me. For example I always read before going to sleep, so with that data I could track my sleep habits.
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Would this not encourage books to be larger with a lower density of content?
That should be adjusting by itself though, since lower density of content lowers the want to continue reading.
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It is technically dift to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on. Not since encryption has been invented. Firefox syncs currently open tabs and other stuff without letting Mozilla know about them.
Encryption is a waste of complexity and battery life here. Firefox encrypts your history and open tabs because those are sensitive. A page number in a book is not.
This could offer the final blow to the paper book market: Since they way to monetize ebooks will be totally different than paper books, this means they'll need to be written in a totally different way. So this means most authors will choose one or the other, and most likely they'll choose to write only ebooks, because there's more money there.
This could offer the final blow to the paper book market: Since they way to monetize ebooks will be totally different than paper books, this means they'll need to be written in a totally different way. So this means most authors will choose one or the other, and most likely they'll choose to write only ebooks, because there's more money there.
I currently publish several books of a legal nature on Amazon, both in print and ebooks. I'd say my print book sales to ebook sales are 10:1 ratio in favor of print books.
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?
When you read part of an ebook, set it aside, and come back, you want it to remember what page you were on. You also want this to work if you switch between devices. It is technically difficult to make this feature work without letting Amazon also know what page you're on.
Why is it acceptable for Amazon to be able to record every time someone turns a page?