BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[briantrumpet]

Owned by Amazon.

...as I was saying about buying up competitors to control/monopolise a market.

 

[C R]

...as I was saying about buying up competitors to control/monopolise a market.

The first step of the enshitification process.

 

[icowden]

The first step of the enshitification process.

The one thing I don't like about Amazon e-books is how restrictive they are in terms of sharing with your family. You can only share with one other adult. So if my wife wants to share books with her mum, she can't also share them with me or either of our daughters who are now too old for child accounts. If she shares with her mum, I can't share my books with her.

On the other hand if one of us buys a paperback, it can make its way round the family before going to a second hand shop.

 

[C R]

The one thing I don't like about Amazon e-books is how restrictive they are in terms of sharing with your family. You can only share with one other adult. So if my wife wants to share books with her mum, she can't also share them with me or either of our daughters who are now too old for child accounts. If she shares with her mum, I can't share my books with her.

On the other hand if one of us buys a paperback, it can make its way round the family before going to a second hand shop.

And that's why I have stayed away from electronic books. A printed book is mine, Bezos can't retroactively take it away from me, like he did with 1984
https://curiowire.com/article/440.

 

[All uphill]

Owned by Amazon.

Bugger.

 

[Psamathe]

And that's why I have stayed away from electronic books. A printed book is mine, Bezos can't retroactively take it away from me, like he did with 1984
https://curiowire.com/article/440.

Likewise. And companies come and go eg warning
Jeff Bezos tells employees 'one day Amazon will fail'

Trouble is that travelling and paperbacks/printed books just are not practical (need too many) so Kindles seem the only viable alternative. I hope that were Bezos' predictions to happen then an administrator would be able to sell the Kindle part of the business and somebody else would take it on.

 

[Ian H]

Bugger.

My feeling when I found out.

 

[Ian H]

And that's why I have stayed away from electronic books. A printed book is mine, Bezos can't retroactively take it away from me, like he did with 1984
https://curiowire.com/article/440.

I'm unclear about the status of Kindle actual downloads. Previously there were two options: read online or download. As I recall the download option was removed some while ago. I'm assuming that the books I actually downloaded are out of Amazon's reach. But I might be wrong.

 

[C R]

I'm unclear about the status of Kindle actual downloads. Previously there were two options: read online or download. As I recall the download option was removed some while ago. I'm assuming that the books I actually downloaded are out of Amazon's reach. But I might be wrong.

The 1984 copies were deleted from the devices, so at least at that time downloads were not out of amazon's reach.

 

[Psamathe]

The 1984 copies were deleted from the devices, so at least at that time downloads were not out of amazon's reach.

I assume purchasers were fully refunded.
nb My Kindle runs in Airtime mode the entire time with only brief online times when I do a "stock-up" of more books, then airplane mode again.

 

[PurplePenguin]

The one thing I don't like about Amazon e-books is how restrictive they are in terms of sharing with your family. You can only share with one other adult. So if my wife wants to share books with her mum, she can't also share them with me or either of our daughters who are now too old for child accounts. If she shares with her mum, I can't share my books with her.

On the other hand if one of us buys a paperback, it can make its way round the family before going to a second hand shop.

This is where I have a more relaxed and flexible view of the law. If I've bought something, I'm happy download it from elsewhere without restrictions if necessary.

 

[Beebo]

I assume purchasers were fully refunded.
nb My Kindle runs in Airtime mode the entire time with only brief online times when I do a "stock-up" of more books, then airplane mode again.

Google suggests they got a full refund and Amazon have said they won’t do it again.
It was because they apparently didn’t have the rights for digital distribution.

 

[Beebo]

Ed Davey is writing cheques he will never cash.
Offering to push the tax brackets up to £15.000 and £56,000.
This really is something that shouldn’t be contentious and should’ve been done already, but the country can’t afford it.

 

[First Aspect]

Ed Davey is writing cheques he will never cash.
Offering to push the tax brackets up to £15.000 and £56,000.
This really is something that shouldn’t be contentious and should’ve been done already, but the country can’t afford it.

It can, but not in addition to the triple lock and universal credit in its current form.

 

[Dorset Boy]

Increase income tax by 1p and it can be done