#Amazon treats its warehouse workers badly, pays very little tax and tracks its users. Its #Kindle platform will delete books that people have already bought.
Here are some updated ethical alternatives to #AmazonBooks, Kindle and #GoodReads:
https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-amazon-and-goodreads/
Thanks to everyone who gave suggestions for alternatives, if you have any more suggestions (or feedback on these alternatives) please reply to this post.
#Kindle #Goodreads #Privacy #DeleteAmazon #DeleteKindle #DRM #eBooks #Books
I can't comment on that much on buying proper from AMZN itself since I've been vastly cutting down on purchases.
But wrt the Kindle, mine has never ever had been connected via wifi. Everything is dumped straight from the connecting PC. Strictly speaking, epub/mobi is such a static format that planned obsolescence is never an issue and if you don't connect to the internet security isn't an issue wrt to the Kindle either.
Thanks for the feedback!
It's a fair point that the Kindle can be used to view certain non-DRM files, though Amazon doesn't promote it in this way.
Just one thing though, as far as I can tell Kindle doesn't support epub?
@switchingsocial @SlightDashOfColour no, but you can use calibre to convert it.
@SlightDashOfColour @switchingsocial oh! Didn't know about the striping. I noticed some é-books for sale are DRM free as per request of the author, though.
@eloisa @switchingsocial
Yup, you can still partake of the ecoystem legally if you so wish, and the DRM is trivial to strip. I suspect at this point Amazon is offering DRM only as a fig leaf for the publishing houses.