Amazon and the 1984 Affair
July 20, 2009 by Bernd Kling
You thought you could buy e-books for Amazon’s Kindle? Untrue. They only licence them to you and may take them away anytime. True.
Vodafone plans Amazon Kindle rival in Germany
July 5, 2009 by Bernd Kling
The Amazon e-reader is delayed in Europe’s biggest book market because leading wireless carriers Vodafone and T-Mobile asked for excessively high service fees for the Kindle’s wireless connection. The carriers may have had their own reasons to stall the negotiations.