Slashdot Mirror
Amazon Donates 2,000 Kindles To Wounded Veterans
destinyland writes "Amazon's just announced that they're donating 2,000 Kindles to a charity for wounded soldiers and their families. They're also promising to hire at least 1,200 more veterans within the next year at fulfillment centers around the country through Amazon's Military Talent Program."
How can this be considered a good thing? The Kindle is essentially a prison for your mind, with it's digital restrictions management that they use to keep you from legally backing up, lending, or selling your books. I don't think its fair to do this to our troops.
Amazon might as well be Al Queda.
All the non-techys I know that have kindles have no idea how to put books on it that aren't on the Amazon store and think that it sounds too hard.. . . I have months of reading ahead of me on mine thanks to Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/
But I think that expecting the average Joe to know and find out about this stuff is a stretch. Amazon has made it too convenient.
Not being a regular on the Amazon store, I have only just learned that they offer free books (thanks to your post).
. .