Well, Brian, you're dead wrong. That's all. I can download all my Kindle files to my computer hard drive if I choose to, share them with cheap friend, or print them out on paper and share them with even cheaper friends. I own them just as much as anyone owns a book and they're easier to manipulate or quote from when I need to. Of course, if I have no scruples at all, I can scan The DA VINCI CODE, put out my own electronic edition of it, and sell it for $5.99 until Dan Brown discovers what I'm doing and complains about it. That's when it has to be yanked and that's exactly what happened with the Orwell content. You talk about sophistry, that stupid con was sophistry and overstated at that using Orwell. It would have been subtler to use Ayn Rand... but a lot more work ;-}
Patrick King
--- On Tue, 11/17/09, Brian Thornton <bthorntonwriter@gmail.com> wrote:
> From: Brian Thornton <bthorntonwriter@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Re: state of NY publishing
> To: rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 2:03 AM
> C'mon Patrick.
>
> The point was that with a Kindle you don't BUY what you're
> reading. You
> don't control your access to it.
>
> At least with a book it can't be deleted halfway through
> your reading it.
>
> THAT was the point, your irrelevant, sophist example of
> your run-in with a
> counterfeiter notwithstanding.
>
> Thanks for playing.
>
> Brian
>
> On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 4:03 PM, Patrick King <abrasax93@yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > mrt wrote:
> >
> > "But even if you assumed that industrial civilization
> would continue along
> > present lines (an impossibility, as we know from
> physics), do you think
> > poor people, who are the overwhelming majority of the
> world, will be buying
> > Kindles and paying to download books from Amazon?"
> >
> > Small but important point: with the Kindle, you're not
> purchasing content.
> > You're purchasing a license to read it. A friend of
> mine downloaded a
> > book,and for some reason (copyright infringement or
> something along those
> > lines)it was "recalled" and her account credited,
> apologies made, and it
> > just flat vanished from her Kindle. As if she'd never
> bought it.
> >
> > Now I ask you, how "1984" is that?
> >
> > ******************************
> >
> > I was paid $700 in cash for a job I did and I
> deposited it in the bank. Two
> > of the bills, my bank determined, were counterfeit and
> were confiscated. Not
> > only did I not get my $200 back but I was taken down
> to the police station
> > where I had to give a statement and explain where I
> got the money. To date I
> > have not been able to recover the money from my client
> who apparently is in
> > pretty hot water, himself.
> >
> > Now I ask you, how "1984" is that?
> >
> > Patrick King
> >
> >
> >
>
>
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