Amazon turned off customer’s Kindle account, blocking her from her books (2012)
It&#x27;s always a bit alienating to me when people suddenly wake up with their stuff taken away and are all like &quot;how could this happen to me? why did noone warn me about this? how could amazon _do this to me_?&quot; and then go off on their ways and &quot;buy&quot; the next movie from them (in addition to the amazon prime membership they already pay for that for some reason only includes the 480p version of the movie). It&#x27;s not like they haven&#x27;t been warned that this would happen. At some point, most people experienced some kind of abuse based on subsciption or otherwise questionable licensed service models. yet, they continue to not change a single thing about their behaviour.<p>I really like ebooks. I like my newfound ability to carry around the novel I&#x27;m reading in the form of a pocketbook sized tablet with a matte screen that can be lit with warm orange light if I want it. But I buy all my books directly from the publisher, drm-free. That gives me the right to create as many copies as I want for personal use, makes it legal to integrate it into calibre, make a backup and store it on my ereader all at the same time. Buying from publishers is not hard. It&#x27;s the second entry on ddg when I search for the book I&#x27;m currently reading. They even accept giropay without the need to create an account.<p>With movies and music I can partially understand the streaming model because the average joe wants much of it, he wants it pre-curated to his taste and he wants it fast, without hassle. This is easy to accomplish with streaming in the drm-hell landscape it has become. But books? He buys a book maybe once every two weeks and the convenience is en par with the garbage dump amazon has set up and much less abusive than that.<p>---<p>fixed spelling