Darren New <dne### [at] sanrrcom> writes:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> Some people like to refer back to the books they bought and already
>> read, that's my point.
>
> Sure. You buy Animal Farm for the Kindle. You pay $10. You read it on
> your Kindle. Amazon deletes it off your Kindle and gives you your $10
> back. You drive to B&N and buy a paper copy for $10.
>
> I'm not saying it's good that Amazon can do this, but on the grand scale
> from "inconvenience" to "catastrophe", it seems it's much closer to the
> former.

All good and well for books that are widely in print. People like me
who've read books my parents bought 50 years ago would like the ebooks
we buy today to be equally readable for our kids/grandkids.

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