Amazon Wants To Give A Free Kindle To All Amazon Prime Subscribers

Post by msg » Fri, Feb 12, 2010, 10:48 PM UTC

weaksauce wrote: post #47

thaumaturgy wrote: post #33

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I mostly agree with you, but with one exception: I'm a bit of a history buff, and I'm not altogether looking forward to a future where all of the history texts are alterable, and nobody owns previous copies.

I wonder if this will increase the number of people that sha1 the books to see if it has been tampered. maybe have a distributed system that votes for the correct hash. Or you could have a canonical repository like the library of congress.

Post by whughes » Sat, Feb 13, 2010, 6:25 AM UTC

thaumaturgy wrote: post #33

jrockway wrote: post #29

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Just like with libraries? I buy books for a few hours of enjoyment. After I've read them, they just sit on a shelf and collect dust. Because most people are like this, the Kindle is not a poor value proposition. Even if you were only allowed to read the book exactly once, it would still be a better value (in terms of hours of time spent per dollar spent) than many things, like seeing a movie. Everyone hates DRM, but…

I mostly agree with you, but with one exception: I'm a bit of a history buff, and I'm not altogether looking forward to a future where all of the history texts are alterable, and nobody owns previous copies.