B2C Mother

The Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6 is a spiffy device. It has a great look, a great interface and fulfills a great function. I’ve wanted to get one of them for the last year or so but there have been a number of events that have prevented me from jumping on board.

Here are 3 reazon for not to buy Amazon kindle books

1. Text to speech. When the Kindle 2.0 was released, it had a fantastic text-to-speech application included. If I had a kindle, I probably wouldn’t use it much, but I could see myself using it from time to time (like if I were driving or falling asleep to a book). The writer’s guild was worried that this would kill their books-on-tape sales, so they told Amazon.com to kill the functionality. Amazon.com complied. In fact, they didn’t just pull the functionality from Kindles they had in their warehouse, they killed the functionality on all of the Kindles they had sold.

People who had purchased the device, maybe even because it had text-to-speech, woke up one morning and found out that Amazon killed it from afar.

Lesson 1: Amazon.com can sell a Kindle claiming it does something, and then decide to remove that feature.

2. If you lose your Amazon.com account, your Kindle becomes a brick. Users who have lost their Amazon.com account have turned on their Kindles to find they they can no longer read the books associated with their account and can no longer download any new content to their device. I don’t plan on losing my Amazon.com account, but this is enough to keep me away.

Lesson 2: If you have a fallout with Amazon.com, your device is a brick. You do not own the device, even though you paid for it.

3. Takesie-backsies. If you buy a book and that publisher decides to stop publishing that book, it typically has no effect on you. I have a number of out-of-print books on my bookshelf and I’m entirely confident that they will remain there until I disturb them. This is not the case with the Amazon Kindle. If a publisher decides to stop offering a book, Amazon.com removes it from your device on behalf of the publisher. Its as if they decided not to offer a book anymore so they came into your house and took it off of your bookshelf.

Lesson 3: You don’t own what you pay for. All of your content and the associated rights are still owned by Amazon and the Publisher. If they decide to alter the agreement or remove the rights they’ve bestowed upon you, they can do it at any time and with zero notice.

If  you still want to buy it,than you can check here:
Kindle Wireless Reading Device (6

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I owned a launch 60gb system which I loved dearly – until it gave me the “Yellow Light Of Death” error, necessitating a costly repair through Sony’s customer service.  Sony’s service returned me a refurbished 60gb unit, which I have now sold in favor of a “Slim.” I simply don’t trust the launch units. I baby all of my electronics, in a kid-free, smoke-free household. I am frankly convinced that an unacceptable number of 60bg units will suffer overheating failures in an unacceptable time frame.

SO…

The PlayStation 3 120 GB system had an obvious appeal to me. It uses a 45nm microchip process (as opposed to the 90nm process of the original), which means smaller, cooler transistors, and lower power consumption. Accounts on the Internet point to a reduction of fully half of the power consumption between the 60 and 120gb units (check the internet for details). (more…)

For ten years our project was the “Church of Stop Shopping!” We knew that it would take some kind of hot revival to break the strangle-hold of “stuff.” The onus was on American consumers to save the economy every Christmas, and then our shopping was supposed to save the country from terrorism, too. The marketing was so personally invasive that there was no longer much we could that was not somehow corporate sponsored. We couldn’t even fall in love, or raise our own children, without buying the experience. So yes, let’s “Stop Shopping!” Then later in our church work, after Katrina and Rita, we began to feel the earth was our leader. The earth would ultimately arouse our strongest shouts of “Stop Shopping!” – and we knew the earth would eventually stop our shopping for us.

Now we are standing in the rain, the institution has emptied. We shopped till we dropped, didn’t we… The “Shopocalypse” is at hand! And we Americans stand in the wreckage of miles of pavement, empty billboards, dead super malls. At the same time – our communities are bravely changing around us. This is the inspiration for the changing of our name. We have stopped and we are starting something new. Our neighborhoods and Main Streets, shuttered by the big boxes and their big banks, are now blossoming again. There are record start-ups each week, usually family businesses. Organic farms and green markets are strong. People are meeting their neighbors and are trading with each other, skill-swapping and loaning tools. This last Christmas, indy shops out-performed chain stores. We shopped local. Local-a-lujah!

And so we stand outside, soaked to the skin, and we feel different. We see the corporations waving to us. They are trying to catch our eye. Pepsico’s logo even stole Obama’s sunrise. But we sense the over-advertising, over-packaging, the con of the debt. We have something so much more powerful calling to us. Our neighborhoods and towns can be healthy again. Peace-a-ujah! Earth-a-luja! We will have a Life After Shopping.