Title: Amazon owns it, you don't
Product review: Amazon broke into the homes of thousands of its customers the other night and retrieved copies of George Orwell's "1984" and "Animal Farm." (Read about it in David Pogue's NYTimes blog posting from July 17, 2009.)In so doing, Amazon has given an object lesson in the fatal flaw of its Kindle: it is a proprietary technology which they control, not you. You do not own your library. You own nothing but a few ounces of plastic and circuitry. And, years from now, regardless of what Amazon does to your library in the short run, your long-obsolete, long-dead Kindle will sit on an empty bookshelf, a reminder of what Big Brother did to the publishing industry.
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