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I'm sorry, but I guess I am stodgy and old-fashioned, perhaps downright curmudgeonly in this respect:  I want to <i>own</i> what I have bought.

The second is actually their policy towards authors and publishers; I'm referring, of course, to the battle which involved Amazon's weeklong shutdown of Macmillan titles last year.

I don't disapprove of the idea of storing ebooks "in the cloud",and like I said, O'Reilly have made a good go of ensuring access to ebooks they sell; but until and unless a book distributor comes along who I trust and trust to act ethically towards others, I'm still in the same position.  This just isn't a good technology yet.";s:12:"comment_type";s:0:"";s:14:"comment_parent";s:4:"2627";s:7:"user_ID";s:1:"0";s:7:"user_ip";s:13:"139.133.7.237";s:10:"user_agent";s:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7";s:8:"referrer";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:4:"blog";s:22:"http://davidhewson.com";s:9:"blog_lang";s:5:"en_US";s:12:"blog_charset";s:5:"UTF-8";s:9:"permalink";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:9:"user_role";s:0:"";s:21:"akismet_comment_nonce";s:6:"passed";s:11:"POST_author";s:6:"LynneB";s:10:"POST_email";s:23:"lynnebat@googlemail.com";s:8:"POST_url";s:0:"";s:12:"POST_comment";s:1051:"I am suspicious of the Kindle model on two counts.  The first is simply because of their apparent basic model that essentially I am renting access to books that they still own; I know that they promised not to repeat the mass recall of bought books that they did in 2009, but it is only a matter of trust that they don't.  Nothing keeps them from removing content except for that promise.

I'm sorry, but I guess I am stodgy and old-fashioned, perhaps downright curmudgeonly in this respect:  I want to <i>own</i> what I have bought.

The second is actually their policy towards authors and publishers; I'm referring, of course, to the battle which involved Amazon's weeklong shutdown of Macmillan titles last year.

I don't disapprove of the idea of storing ebooks "in the cloud",and like I said, O'Reilly have made a good go of ensuring access to ebooks they sell; but until and unless a book distributor comes along who I trust and trust to act ethically towards others, I'm still in the same position.  This just isn't a good technology yet.";s:11:"POST_submit";s:12:"Post Comment";s:20:"POST_comment_post_ID";s:4:"7508";s:19:"POST_comment_parent";s:4:"2627";s:26:"POST_akismet_comment_nonce";s:10:"bbde405e3f";s:15:"SERVER_SOFTWARE";s:79:"Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4";s:11:"REQUEST_URI";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:14:"CONTENT_LENGTH";s:4:"1282";s:12:"CONTENT_TYPE";s:33:"application/x-www-form-urlencoded";s:13:"DOCUMENT_ROOT";s:42:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com";s:17:"GATEWAY_INTERFACE";s:7:"CGI/1.1";s:11:"HTTP_ACCEPT";s:63:"text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8";s:19:"HTTP_ACCEPT_CHARSET";s:30:"ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_ENCODING";s:12:"gzip,deflate";s:20:"HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE";s:14:"en-gb,en;q=0.5";s:18:"HTTP_CACHE_CONTROL";s:14:"max-age=259200";s:15:"HTTP_CONNECTION";s:10:"keep-alive";s:11:"HTTP_COOKIE";s:0:"";s:9:"HTTP_HOST";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:15:"HTTP_KEEP_ALIVE";s:3:"300";s:12:"HTTP_REFERER";s:74:"http://davidhewson.com/2011/02/another-insight-into-how-book-thieves-work/";s:15:"HTTP_USER_AGENT";s:90:"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.9.0.7) Gecko/2009021910 Firefox/3.0.7";s:8:"HTTP_VIA";s:43:"1.0 abdn007.abdn.ac.uk (squid/3.0.STABLE20)";s:20:"HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR";s:15:"139.133.216.217";s:4:"PATH";s:13:"/bin:/usr/bin";s:12:"QUERY_STRING";s:0:"";s:15:"REDIRECT_STATUS";s:3:"200";s:11:"REMOTE_ADDR";s:13:"139.133.7.237";s:11:"REMOTE_PORT";s:5:"58159";s:14:"REQUEST_METHOD";s:4:"POST";s:15:"SCRIPT_FILENAME";s:63:"/home/davidhe4/public_html/davidhewson.com/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SCRIPT_NAME";s:21:"/wp-comments-post.php";s:11:"SERVER_ADDR";s:14:"67.225.237.100";s:12:"SERVER_ADMIN";s:37:"webmaster@davidhewson.davidhewson.net";s:11:"SERVER_NAME";s:15:"davidhewson.com";s:11:"SERVER_PORT";s:2:"80";s:15:"SERVER_PROTOCOL";s:8:"HTTP/1.0";s:16:"SERVER_SIGNATURE";s:133:"<address>Apache/2.2.17 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.17 OpenSSL/0.9.8e-fips-rhel5 mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at davidhewson.com Port 80</address>
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