This seems disingenuous to me. First, on the 1984 scandel he cites, Amazon has apologized, sworn they will never do it again, refunded customers money and given customers new copies of the book. Give them a break already.
On the "Gay-Rank" scandal they claimed it was a bug and they fixed the bug within a single business day. He claims that's not enough because "it shows that they've created a frighteningly efficient machine for imposing ideological censorship, should they choose to do so". But here's my question: How could they have a ranking system and not create the possibility of censorship? It's impossible (and the ranking system helps far more people than its ever hurt).
After making those claims he goes on to fabricate a sinister reason as to why Amazon doesn't have a Kindle UK store yet (based on no evidence as far as I can tell)
So he basically believes Amazon has sinister objectives no matter what they say or what actions they take and based on that he believes Kindle in the UK is a bad thing. The one thing he is right about is DRM but Apple kind of proved that sometimes you have to give publishers their DRM in order to convince them that they don't need it.
On the "Gay-Rank" scandal they claimed it was a bug and they fixed the bug within a single business day. He claims that's not enough because "it shows that they've created a frighteningly efficient machine for imposing ideological censorship, should they choose to do so". But here's my question: How could they have a ranking system and not create the possibility of censorship? It's impossible (and the ranking system helps far more people than its ever hurt).
Oh, and does Amazon cap the price of books at $9.99 (http://www.amazon.com/CSS-The-Missing-Manual-ebook/dp/B0026O...)?
After making those claims he goes on to fabricate a sinister reason as to why Amazon doesn't have a Kindle UK store yet (based on no evidence as far as I can tell)
So he basically believes Amazon has sinister objectives no matter what they say or what actions they take and based on that he believes Kindle in the UK is a bad thing. The one thing he is right about is DRM but Apple kind of proved that sometimes you have to give publishers their DRM in order to convince them that they don't need it.