Re: Re: Amazon.com's "Search Inside the Book"

From: Keith Tabor <ket354[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 16:51:20 -0500

• "John R. Levine" <johnl[_at_]iecc.com> wrote:
  > I am no fan of the RIAA, and I have as little
  > patience for hardware
  > and software copy protection dongles on e-books as
  > anyone, but I do
  > think that it's a poor plan for Amazon to set up a
  > new service that
  > says "Here you go! Don't even think of paying us!"
  >
  

While Amazon may be more creative than some other companies, they will never maintain a system that they don't make money off of. That is why they are one of the very few dot coms that are not dot bombs. The key is whether authors are getting their fair share of that cash. In this case I think they are. But that doesn't mean you shouldn't analyze each innovation.

keith

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