Comments on: TKC 57 Michael Seringhaus http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/08/21/tkc-57-michael-searinghaus/ The Friday Podcast All About Your Kindle Thu, 09 Sep 2010 02:01:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: TKC 78 Harvey Chute | Covers for Kindle http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/08/21/tkc-57-michael-searinghaus/comment-page-1/#comment-31241 TKC 78 Harvey Chute | Covers for Kindle Sat, 03 Apr 2010 04:51:45 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=556#comment-31241 [...] – Thoughts on Michael Seringhaus’s recently published “E-Book Transactions: Amazon ‘Kindles’ the Copy Ownershhip [...] [...] – Thoughts on Michael Seringhaus’s recently published “E-Book Transactions: Amazon ‘Kindles’ the Copy Ownershhip [...]

]]> By: The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 78 Harvey Chute http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/08/21/tkc-57-michael-searinghaus/comment-page-1/#comment-22155 The Kindle Chronicles - TKC 78 Harvey Chute Sat, 16 Jan 2010 06:49:12 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=556#comment-22155 [...] – Thoughts on Michael Seringhaus’s recently published “E-Book Transactions: Amazon ‘Kindles’ the Copy Ownershhip [...] [...] – Thoughts on Michael Seringhaus’s recently published “E-Book Transactions: Amazon ‘Kindles’ the Copy Ownershhip [...]

]]> By: thorn http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2009/08/21/tkc-57-michael-searinghaus/comment-page-1/#comment-10785 thorn Wed, 26 Aug 2009 02:37:45 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=556#comment-10785 i agree with mr. seringhaus, that all of the messing around one might potentially have to do with drm-protected, kindle-specific books might make amazon's kindle editions 'value subtracted', compared to other e-books. i'm experiencing that in some measure now, just because i *know* that i have a lot of excellent-quality, entertaining, *completely free* material on my kindle that i can easily re-download any old time i decide to move to a different device; whereas with kindle editions, i'm paying for the privilege of eventually not being able to read my stuff. that irony is not lost on me at all. so i buy comparatively few kindle titles from amazon. i simply don't want a bunch of purchases to become inaccessible before i get around to reading them; so i buy as i read. i sure don't download as i read, though. i've downloaded a *huge* amount of free content. in fact, i read a pile of free texts before i even cracked the second book i purchased from amazon. if i could be assured that i wouldn't be flagged as a thief (or license agreement violator) down the road for trying to read my own paid content, i would not hesitate to 'overbuy', as i've been doing for decades with print. but until then, i'm happy to buy kindle editions at my current book-completion rate. i still think that kindle has the most of what i personally need in an electronic reader. but the technology's too young for me to become too brand-loyal too soon. i agree with mr. seringhaus, that all of the messing around one might potentially have to do with drm-protected, kindle-specific books might make amazon’s kindle editions ‘value subtracted’, compared to other e-books. i’m experiencing that in some measure now, just because i *know* that i have a lot of excellent-quality, entertaining, *completely free* material on my kindle that i can easily re-download any old time i decide to move to a different device; whereas with kindle editions, i’m paying for the privilege of eventually not being able to read my stuff. that irony is not lost on me at all.

so i buy comparatively few kindle titles from amazon. i simply don’t want a bunch of purchases to become inaccessible before i get around to reading them; so i buy as i read. i sure don’t download as i read, though. i’ve downloaded a *huge* amount of free content. in fact, i read a pile of free texts before i even cracked the second book i purchased from amazon.

if i could be assured that i wouldn’t be flagged as a thief (or license agreement violator) down the road for trying to read my own paid content, i would not hesitate to ‘overbuy’, as i’ve been doing for decades with print. but until then, i’m happy to buy kindle editions at my current book-completion rate. i still think that kindle has the most of what i personally need in an electronic reader. but the technology’s too young for me to become too brand-loyal too soon.

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