Not only will I not be able to have the Harry Potter series on this for free since I own the books, I won't be able to have it on there for any cost.
I assume that Amazon has the books scanned but if they don't have the rights to sell it this way, that's not worth much. Content providers are worried about having their product become another P2P commodity and they might be too scared to license their books.
It could be the same chicken and egg problem that destroyed many other technologies. I went from "COOL!" to "Ummmm" in as long as it took me to see what books I could read with this.
It's still early though and Amazon has deep pockets, so this doesn't sink anything of course...
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Date: 2007-11-19 06:39 pm (UTC)http://amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_kinc/104-1213906-2103126?url=node%3D154606011&field-keywords=harry+potter&x=0&y=0
Not only will I not be able to have the Harry Potter series on this for free since I own the books, I won't be able to have it on there for any cost.
I assume that Amazon has the books scanned but if they don't have the rights to sell it this way, that's not worth much. Content providers are worried about having their product become another P2P commodity and they might be too scared to license their books.
It could be the same chicken and egg problem that destroyed many other technologies. I went from "COOL!" to "Ummmm" in as long as it took me to see what books I could read with this.
It's still early though and Amazon has deep pockets, so this doesn't sink anything of course...