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Lose Your Amazon Account and Your Kindle Dies
Mike writes "If you buy a Kindle and some Kindle ebooks from Amazon, be careful of returning items. Amazon decided that one person had returned too many things, so they suspended his Amazon account, which meant that he could no longer buy any Kindle books, and any Kindle subscriptions he's paid for stop working. After some phone calls, Amazon granted him a one-time exception and reactivated his account again." Take this with as much salt as you'd like.
None of which would be an issue if you had physical books. No matter how much the seller decided he didn't like you, he could never legally take back books you've bought and paid for. By forcing users to tie a book to a specific machine, you cut much of the value of that book. If I have a physical book, I can give it to another person when I am done with it. My wife and sisters trade books all the time. Any e-book that you buy with DRM that ties it to a particular device is crap.
HexaByte - he's a square and a half!
Amazon is completely within its rights to deny further service to this client because most probably he had abused it. I completely understand and support Amazon there.
_BUT_ it doesn't give Amazon right to revoke the license to the content which the client had _already_ bought.
Looks like I'll never be buying electronics from Amazon again.