Apple Stole My Music. No Seriously.

[Hekate]

64. It was really weird. The customers found their accounts had been credited...

...so Amazon was like "no harm done," but that was not the point, in my mind at least. What we saw was a pivot to a brave new world (another great book, by the way) in which you don't really own what you paid for if what you bought was solely electronic and in the Cloud.

The purveyors of these products have gotten plenty sniffy about you sharing "their" books and music that you have paid for with family and friends. See, I have a library of hardcover and paperback books, some of which are a century old. I can give them away, sell them, loan them, bequeath them to my heirs -- and it is all perfectly legal and I have them in my possession. You are not allowed to do that with anything stored in the Cloud or whatever, and chances are the products won't actually exist in a century. Only collectors and archivists care, because you won't exist in a century either. My adult kids could care less about my library -- oh well.

I only purchased a basic Kindle when I discovered my Public Library has e-books to lend. Once I got it I explored Kindle's free books and got a bunch. Then I discovered Gutenberg, which has 50,000 out of copyright books available for free, although it was a pain to work around... Amazon/Kindle meanwhile has decided it really does not want other books on its proprietary tablet, and the newer flashier versions make it almost impossible to access non-Amazon books. Since I got my iPad mini, Gutenberg gives me zero problems and Kindle can go pound sand.

GUTENBERG http://www.gutenberg.org/