Piracy on the Amazon

31stDec. × ’09

Eight months ago, Kevin Carson called for a hack of Amazon’s Kindle.

He got his wish this week, just in time for Christmas. (CHT Sheldon Richman.)

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  1. Anon73
    Posted January 1, 2010 at 12:04 am | Permalink

    Firefox 3.0.16.NETCLR3.5.30729 Windows XP

    I thought book writers were already ‘starving’ compared to film-makers, video-game companies, etc; it doesn’t seem like the utilitarian argument has much merit here.

    • Posted January 1, 2010 at 12:07 am | Permalink

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      I’m not sure what you mean. Of course they’re ‘starving,’ since most of the money from their copyrights goes to their publishers rather than to them.

      • Anon73
        Posted January 1, 2010 at 1:16 am | Permalink

        Firefox 3.0.16.NETCLR3.5.30729 Windows XP

        That’s true, I meant in the sense of total revenue of books being substantially less than the other fields.