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Amazon in the Book Banning Business
I find this both interesting and worrying. While I don't personally have any interest in the books currently being deleted (incest erotica fiction), that would seem to be beside the point. Could this be one of the very real issues with the world of E-books? Amazon appear to have deleted the content not only as an item for sale, but deleted it also from the personal Kindle libraries of people who paid for access to the titles in question. They are not currently offering refunds, let alone a proper explanation.
Obviously here is another site that needs to seriously consider their content guidelines and spell them out appropriately, rather than simply deleting on "sole discretion, at any time". It seems like a path that could snowball into a much wider area of censorship.
I own a Kindle and I'm already fairly unimpressed with the library offered. But I'm also less than happy about the idea of someone being able to retrospectively censor content that I paid for and therefore own. I'll be watching how this progresses with some interest.
I find this both interesting and worrying. While I don't personally have any interest in the books currently being deleted (incest erotica fiction), that would seem to be beside the point. Could this be one of the very real issues with the world of E-books? Amazon appear to have deleted the content not only as an item for sale, but deleted it also from the personal Kindle libraries of people who paid for access to the titles in question. They are not currently offering refunds, let alone a proper explanation.
Obviously here is another site that needs to seriously consider their content guidelines and spell them out appropriately, rather than simply deleting on "sole discretion, at any time". It seems like a path that could snowball into a much wider area of censorship.
I own a Kindle and I'm already fairly unimpressed with the library offered. But I'm also less than happy about the idea of someone being able to retrospectively censor content that I paid for and therefore own. I'll be watching how this progresses with some interest.
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And now they're doing this weird shit with censoring stuff that they were happy to make money from until that point. And not even a refund... not that that would satisfy me if someone deleted shit that I HAD PAID FOR! Ugh!
I had thought you could email stuff to yourself to read, but as yet I can't see how that is done. Which just isn't right. Anyway. I made a mistake buying this puppy in all likelihood. Pity as it is very nice to read on.
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Can I ask what may be a dumb question? If I wanted to remove a title from my Kindle. Can I do that using Calibre or do I just go into the file on the Kindle and delete it there?FOUND IT! Never mind. :)I'm planning to dump a bunch of epic big bang fics on here, but I'll only keep those which I really like. :)
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