Keith,

I agree about The Review.  However, I do have both a Kindle and a Nook plus a Vizio tablet.  While all of them support DRMed content, you can easily get PG books and IA books on them.  Also, as one who sells books on the Kindle site Amazon does not force you to use DRM.  It is an option every author has, but nobody forces or even encourages you to choose it.  None of my nine books on the Kindle Store have any DRM.  The one caveat is that if you choose to use DRM you can't change your mind later.  However going from no DRM to DRM is doable.  I think Amazon offers DRM because their best selling authors require it from them.

There probably is a way to get PG books on a Kindle Fire.  Rather than write a review PG should figure out how to do it and write an article on that.  I think they already have one on how to get PG books on various devices.

Dedicated devices like the Kindle and the Nook are a blessing to the free e-book community.  There is no good philosophical reason not to get one.

James Simmons


On Mon, Oct 29, 2012 at 4:45 AM, Keith J. Schultz <schultzk@uni-trier.de> wrote:
Hi All,

The so-called Review of the Kindle Fire can hardly be
called a review.

More-over it is hardly impartial, and deliberately misleading!!
Furthermore, is a statement for advocating a different device.

First, why does the author hide behind a title instead of stating
his name, flat out. Why he had bought the machine and in which
affiliation.

Well, he has himself come forward. He also, admitted that he knew
he would be getting the ads. Yet, his review gives you the idea that
he had no idea that he would be getting ads. Furthermore, he, also,
did not mention that the ads could be stop for a fee. He has in the
mean time, mentioned on this list, that he could do this, but did want
to waste PG's MONEY.

As BB has mentioned the so-called review is not a review at all, but a
RANT. I agree, with is opinion.

I do not believe that PG should be advocating such reviews.
Especially, in the light that practically all ereaders that use DRMed
texts are locked down. True, some make it easier to get other free
content from other sources than their official sites.

Personally, I will not be buying a Kindle of any sort, nor a nexus, nor
any dedicated ereader.

PG should not advocate buying any particular device and stay impartial.
Such behavior will be damaging in the end.

regards
        Keith J. Schultz

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