So sorry you have been ‘canceled’ by the mob. Back when Amazon first became a popular bookseller, I noticed a report of a Kindle e-book, bought and paid for by customers, being electronically withdrawn (for whatever reason I do not remember). This alarmed me. I have never purchased an e-book for that very reason: I want to keep the b…
So sorry you have been ‘canceled’ by the mob. Back when Amazon first became a popular bookseller, I noticed a report of a Kindle e-book, bought and paid for by customers, being electronically withdrawn (for whatever reason I do not remember). This alarmed me. I have never purchased an e-book for that very reason: I want to keep the books I purchase. Books provide physical public record which cannot later be denied. Will they be removing books from the Library of Congress, too? Banning books smacks of revisionist history as practiced throughout the world by tyrannical regimes via their lackeys.
You've just described why I will now purchase ebooks directly from the publisher whenever possible and store them both in the cloud and on a drive. Ironically, I seem to recall that first instance of Kindlekill was an erotic "romance" that featured rape and pedophilia, but as with freedom of speech the nuance was lost on most people.
I'd like to add (therefore I'm) that I almost never buy new books, just the used ones. Have been burned too many times by publishers who create books with weak ink density, too-small type size, and crap-quality paper/binding --- let alone poor editing. The latest example of p.e. is Adrian Addison's "Mail Men," a history of the UK newspaper, The Daily Mail (2017). 374 pages; 90% of the time, anything over 300 pages indicates that the publisher skimped on paying for quality editing. MM is typical of that 90%.
So sorry you have been ‘canceled’ by the mob. Back when Amazon first became a popular bookseller, I noticed a report of a Kindle e-book, bought and paid for by customers, being electronically withdrawn (for whatever reason I do not remember). This alarmed me. I have never purchased an e-book for that very reason: I want to keep the books I purchase. Books provide physical public record which cannot later be denied. Will they be removing books from the Library of Congress, too? Banning books smacks of revisionist history as practiced throughout the world by tyrannical regimes via their lackeys.
You've just described why I will now purchase ebooks directly from the publisher whenever possible and store them both in the cloud and on a drive. Ironically, I seem to recall that first instance of Kindlekill was an erotic "romance" that featured rape and pedophilia, but as with freedom of speech the nuance was lost on most people.
I'd like to add (therefore I'm) that I almost never buy new books, just the used ones. Have been burned too many times by publishers who create books with weak ink density, too-small type size, and crap-quality paper/binding --- let alone poor editing. The latest example of p.e. is Adrian Addison's "Mail Men," a history of the UK newspaper, The Daily Mail (2017). 374 pages; 90% of the time, anything over 300 pages indicates that the publisher skimped on paying for quality editing. MM is typical of that 90%.