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That line was crossed when you dealt with a vendor who could actively interfere with your dealings with other vendors, even before they chose to.

lukifer 14y ago
Not that this defends Apple, but strictly speaking, couldn't Amazon choose to do the reverse?
- prodigal_erik 14y ago
  For Kindle users that's true, which is the one and only reason I didn't buy.
  - tjoff 14y ago
    You don't have to buy your kindle-books from amazon.
    - SoftwareMaven 14y ago
      And you don't have to buy your iBooks books from Apple. In fact, I rarely (maybe never) have, but I prefer it's reading experience to the Kindle apps (for whatever reason). I just use Calibre to convert.
      - mikecane 14y ago
        >>>And you don't have to buy your iBooks books from Apple. Um, wut? OK, you probably meant ebooks, but iBooks -- created by iBooks Author -- can be bought only from Apple.
        SoftwareMaven 14y ago
        Good point. I meant "books you read in iBooks".
- antidoh 14y ago
  Interesting thing is, traditional book publishers could do the same. Maybe they have, and we wouldn't be aware of it. My impression is that they mostly haven't and mostly wouldn't. I think Apple, Amazon et al. are particularly extractive, and they come at anything firstly from the point of view of how they can control and channel the experience, the level of focus being unique to them.
  - tjoff 14y ago
    Relevant: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-and-noble-e-reader-war-and-peace.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-a... ...Barnes and Noble’s budget electronic edition of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” had searched for and replaced all incidences of the word “kindled” (a variant of the name of Amazon’s e-reader, of course, but also a legitimate English word) with the word “Nookd.”...
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    - mikecane 14y ago
      That wasn't by B&N. It was by a cheapass public domain parasite who did a search to replace "Kindle" (probably as in "Kindle Edition") and wound up FUBARing the book before submitting it to B&N.

lukifer 14y ago

Not that this defends Apple, but strictly speaking, couldn't Amazon choose to do the reverse?

prodigal_erik 14y ago
For Kindle users that's true, which is the one and only reason I didn't buy.
- tjoff 14y ago
  You don't have to buy your kindle-books from amazon.
  - SoftwareMaven 14y ago
    And you don't have to buy your iBooks books from Apple. In fact, I rarely (maybe never) have, but I prefer it's reading experience to the Kindle apps (for whatever reason). I just use Calibre to convert.
    - mikecane 14y ago
      >>>And you don't have to buy your iBooks books from Apple. Um, wut? OK, you probably meant ebooks, but iBooks -- created by iBooks Author -- can be bought only from Apple.
      - SoftwareMaven 14y ago
        Good point. I meant "books you read in iBooks".
antidoh 14y ago
Interesting thing is, traditional book publishers could do the same. Maybe they have, and we wouldn't be aware of it. My impression is that they mostly haven't and mostly wouldn't. I think Apple, Amazon et al. are particularly extractive, and they come at anything firstly from the point of view of how they can control and channel the experience, the level of focus being unique to them.
- tjoff 14y ago
  Relevant: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-and-noble-e-reader-war-and-peace.html http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2012/06/barnes-a... ...Barnes and Noble’s budget electronic edition of Tolstoy’s “War and Peace” had searched for and replaced all incidences of the word “kindled” (a variant of the name of Amazon’s e-reader, of course, but also a legitimate English word) with the word “Nookd.”...
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  - mikecane 14y ago
    That wasn't by B&N. It was by a cheapass public domain parasite who did a search to replace "Kindle" (probably as in "Kindle Edition") and wound up FUBARing the book before submitting it to B&N.