Over the last few days, I’ve read a lot of oohs and ahhs about the Amazon Kindle e-book reader. The usual shiny new gadget crowd is blogging up a storm about the device. I have a narrowly defined interest in e-book readers, and I’ll bat out a post about what I’m looking for later over this long weekend. This post from Mark Pilgrim popped up in the feed reader the other day; with my new interest in such devices, I decided to quote a liberal chunk of Mark’s post; I emboldened the parts that are links in Mark’s original:
When someone buys a book, they are also buying the right to resell that book, to loan it out, or to even give it away if they want. Everyone understands this.
Jeff Bezos, Open letter to Author’s Guild, 2002
You may not sell, rent, lease, distribute, broadcast, sublicense or otherwise assign any rights to the Digital Content or any portion of it to any third party, and you may not remove any proprietary notices or labels on the Digital Content. In addition, you may not, and you will not encourage, assist or authorize any other person to, bypass, modify, defeat or circumvent security features that protect the Digital Content.
Amazon, Kindle Terms of Service, 2007
This alone rules out the Kindle in my estimation. Mark’s post is exactly on target; read the whole thing.
-k-
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