ROBUST discussion

Folks,

Okay, this is the final straw. The camel's back isn't merely broken, but smashed to flinders.

I just got an email from Amazon about a cool new feature. Here is the emat of the email:


Family Library

With Family Library, you can link two Amazon accounts and share books across devices, including your Kindle (7th Generation) and other compatible Amazon devices and apps. Content from both accounts can also be added to up to four child profiles. When Family Library is enabled, shared content from each of the linked accounts will be available in the cloud on your Kindle (7th Generation) and other compatible devices and apps registered to your accounts. You can access shared content on many Amazon devices

Yup! Why buy a book mom or bro or the aunt just talked about? Link up and read it without spending another penny with every member of the family.

Can you hear it? The great sucking sound of book sales getting slurped away. It's so damned noisy... and getting worse all the time.

/rant off, for now. Grr.

Inevitable, I think. Apple has all along had a feature where you could register all computers in a family and share movies, and it was recently renamed Family Sharing. I imagine other content like music and books will go the way of movies, if they haven't already. Amazon just copies what Apple and other innovators do, so this move shouldn't come as a surprise.

I should probably add that I discovered only yesterday what Family Sharing actually means...

There's definately(?) a lot of sales being sucked out of AMazon. I haven't had a sale there in months. They just stopped abruptly and never picked up again.

Now they keep tinkering with the e-book market, until I really don't want to advertise my books with them.

Fie - a pox on their house!