Comments on: not so kuddly kindle

By: genevieve

genevieve — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:56:29 +0000

Sounds very poorly developed indeed. Surely after all the music industry’s experiences, Amazon would have realised there might be some hassles with shared use.

By: Dan Kleinman

Dan Kleinman — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 01:46:59 +0000

Curious. Does it have any real effect? Like shrink wrap licenses that require you to remove the shrink wrap before you could read the license that requires you not to remove the shrink wrap. I don’t think they have any effect. Like those useless paragraphs people add to emails about disregarding and destroying the email if someone is not the intended recipient. So my initial reaction is Amazon cannot tell libraries what to do or not to do with a library’s own property.

By: Stephen

Stephen — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:27:22 +0000

Not surprised by this. From the Steve Jobs bashing to OLPC to the prospect of cloud computing, Kindle sounds like an invention from an alternative timeline (and future Simpsons sight gag).

By: rochelle

rochelle — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 01:01:02 +0000

Someone left a comment on the post saying that their library got a very different answer from Kindle support, than I did from Kindle support. Hoping that Amazon provides some clarification.

By: Unleash the Metadata! » Blog Archive

Unleash the Metadata! » Blog Archive — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:39:56 +0000

[...] been mildly curious about the Kindle, and know some classmates were interested in it, so here (via librarian.net) is a not-very-surprising clarification on legal policies for it: libraries cannot lend it to [...]