Amazon and the 1984 Affair

July 20, 2009 by Bernd Kling  

1984You thought you could buy e-books for Amazon’s Kindle? Untrue. They only licence them to you and may take them away anytime. True.

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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.

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