My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
My title might be a bit hyperbolic, but stuff like this worries me. I love to read and I love reading on a kindle. This has been going on for a while, but it has now reached absurd levels.
A store cannot survive on good will alone unfortunately. As much as I like my local bookstore, Amazon provides more content in more formats. It’s just better from every angle.
If you need The Good to be just as convenient as The Bad in order to make the switch, it’ll never happen. Nobody’s saying bookstores offer a better deal than Amazon, they’re saying that Amazon is so bad for the world that it makes sense to sacrifice that convenience and switch to alternatives.
Problem: those formats are DRM’d. Your access to “your” books can be revoked at any time without justification.
Don’t worry, your utopian vision of streets full of closed shops and associated tumbleweed will be here soon enough.
There won’t be tumbleweed. There’ll be tents. Tents everywhere. Portland, Oregon is a preview of everyone’s future at this rate.