{"id":2609,"date":"2009-07-19T07:52:06","date_gmt":"2009-07-19T12:52:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2609"},"modified":"2009-07-19T07:56:06","modified_gmt":"2009-07-19T12:56:06","slug":"you-mean-for-the-high-price-of-299-youll-control-what-i-read","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2609","title":{"rendered":"You mean for the high price of $299 you&#8217;ll control what I read?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amusing <strong>thought-police<\/strong> associations aside, it is clear to see in this article at <strong><a title=\"Amazon Power Freaks\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2009\/07\/18\/amazon_removes_1984_from_kindle\/\" target=\"_self\">the Register.com<\/a><\/strong> why Amazon Kindle&#8217;s high-price, expensive eBooks, and locked and managed personal libraries are a business model doomed to fail in an age when digital information and machinery are designed to promote accessibility, convenience and practicality.<\/p>\n<p>Every time I read a story about Amazon&#8217;s draconian business ethics I cringe, knowing illegal eBook sharers and pirates pop up to exploit the situation. The Kindle business model will fail without serious adjustments that favor the consumer.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a terrible joke on us all that they&#8217;re getting dictatorial with George Orwell&#8217;s <em>1984,<\/em> <em>yah<\/em>?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amusing thought-police associations aside, it is clear to see in this article at the Register.com why Amazon Kindle&#8217;s high-price, expensive eBooks, and locked and managed personal libraries are a business model doomed to fail in an age when digital information and machinery are designed to promote accessibility, convenience and practicality. Every time I read a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=2609\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,5,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2609"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2620,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2609\/revisions\/2620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}