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Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly
Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly
I love my Amazon Kindle. I love reading with it, I love how light it is, and I love the battery life. I also love the fact that it automatically syncs with the Amazon Kindle application on my iPhone and iPod touch. That means any book will open to the last page read regardless of the device ...
Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate Businesses
bits.blogs.nytimes.com — Amazon.com wants the Kindle reader to support more book formats and Kindle e-books on gadgets made by... other companies. (more) Jeff Bezos: Kindle Books and Readers Are Separate Businesses
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Kindle DX review
Kindle DX review
engadget.com — Here's the one-line summary of the Kindle DX : It's Kindle 2 with a larger screen, hair-trigger... orientation sensor, and an awful keyboard. Seriously awful. Yes, we know we should be focused on things like PDF support or even content partners like ... (more) Kindle DX review
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KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy
Gear Diary — ... Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly ...

Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User the Books He’s Bought and Paid For [Drm]
IPhone news, updates and Iphone information — ... At the very least Amazon should update its policy so this info is out in the open and easily accessible. The best case scenario would be to allow consumers to actually, you know, literally own the books they've just bought. [Gear Diary] ...

Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User the Books He's Bought and Paid For [Drm]
Gizmodo — ... At the very least Amazon should update its policy so this info is out in the open and easily accessible. The best case scenario would be to allow consumers to actually, you know, literally own the books they've just bought. [Gear Diary] ...

Gear Diary Weekly Roundup
Gear Diary — ... ” firestorm (pausing while everyone calls Amazon to get clarification on whether that DRM content you paid for & own is still accessible). ...

Kindle DRM confuses: unknown download limits apply
SlashGear — ... hardware, and the other has cautious publishers insisting on layers of DRM, confusion is bound to happen.  According to Gear Diary’s Dan Cohen, that confusion is already upon us: he’s spent his weekend and several long calls with Amazon customer care trying to figure out how many times he can download ebooks he’s purchased, and being ...

Some Kindle books have secret caps on the number of times you can download them
Boing Boing — ... what that meant since the books I needed to download weren't currently on any device because I had wiped those devices clean and simply wanted to reinstall. He proceeded to tell me that there is always a limit to the number of times you can download a given book. Sometimes, he said, it's five or six times but at other times it may only be once or twice. And, here's the kicker folks, once you reach the cap you need to repurchase the book if you want to download it again. Kindle's DRM Rears Its Ugly Head... And It IS Ugly (via /., and thanks to everyone ...

An Open Letter To Amazons’ Jeff Bezos
Gear Diary — ... Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly ...

Hey Amazon, Before Putting Your Energy Into In-Book Advertising How About Clarifying and Simplifying Your DRM Policy ?
Gear Diary — ... Okay, I’ve kept quiet for the last two weeks with regard to my whole visit site to read more] Related posts: KindleGate: Confusion Abounds Regarding Kindle Download Policy An Open Letter To Amazon’s Jeff Bezos Kindle’s DRM Rears Its Ugly Head… And It IS Ugly

KindleGate Blows Up In Amazon’s Face
Gear Diary — ... Just a few weeks ago I posted on a series of encounters I had with Amazon and their customer service. The first post raised questions about DRM. ...

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