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Amazon asserts its "rights" on the Kindle

March 14th, 2009 Richard Frisch No comments

A significant concern I have about the Kindle 2 is that Amazon can do whatever it wants with regard to the owners’ use of the device. They can willynilly change the terms of service and harm owners’ interests without any recourse. I wrote about this in my March 3, 2009 post  Amazon’s Kindle 2 Reconsidered.

Yesterday more evidence that Amazon is not a benevolent despot appeared at  Amazon invokes DMCA against Kindle e-books from other vendors -

…This week, an e-book Web site said Amazon.com invoked the 1998 law to prevent books from some non-Amazon sources from working on its Kindle reader.

Amazon sent a legal notice to MobileRead.com complaining that information relating to a computer utility written in the Python programming language “constitutes a violation” of the DMCA, according to a copy of the warning letter that the site posted. MobileRead.com is an e-book news and community site. …

 

Categories: dmca, intellectual property, kindle

Amazon Kindle 2 battery life

March 14th, 2009 Richard Frisch No comments

The Kindle 2 battery life is poor when the wireless is left turned on. There is no quick way I know of to turn on/off the wireless.

Here is the process:

  1. Click the Menu button
  2. Navigate with the joy stick to the Turn Wireless On/Off menu item
  3. Press the joy stick
  4. Click the Menu button again.

This is hapless design. A keyboard shortcut would be welcomed.

Categories: hardware, kindle