Justice Department Threatens Lawsuits, Alleging Collusion Over E-Book Pricing

[Joe Allonby]

Just getting around to reading this conversation. It's giving me a
good laugh because I just got off the phone with 1-800-GOT-JUNK in an
attempt to deal with my elderly mother's basement. Fifty-two years of
accumulated crap. One entire room is filled with books that nobody
will ever read again. They are mostly providing a happy safe
environment for various species of mold, some of which may exist
nowhere else and could be a boon to cryptomicrobiology. It's like the
rainforest, but under a Victorian house and includes sleds from the
1960's and ladders that only a suicidal maniac would attempt to use. I
think I found Jimmy Hoffa buried under a pile of Funk & Wagnall's
Yearbooks topped off with the complete paperback works of Jacqueline
Suzanne, Erica Jong, and Harold Robbins. It's a treasure trove of
literal and figurative trash.

It's going to cost me $638 to get rid of this shit. My kindle has a
delete button as well as an archive button that makes my Neal
Stephenson problem Amazon's servers' problem.



On Fri, Mar 9, 2012 at 12:02 PM, Paul Mackin <mackin.paul at verizon.net> wrote:
> On 3/9/2012 11:45 AM, Bekah wrote:
>>
>> On Mar 8, 2012, at 10:55 PM, Dave Monroe wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Mar 8, 2012 at 8:58 PM, Mark Kohut<markekohut at yahoo.com>  wrote:
>>>
>>>> And I'm sure they are guilty, too....proving it will be harder...
>>>
>>>
>>> I can't see paying for a book without resale value ...
>>
>>
>> That's my sister's voice I hear. (lol)  But she doesn't have hundreds or
>> thousands of books.
>>
>> I have so many, many books and I know darned well they are worth zip on
>> any market.  It will likely be a big bother to get rid of them even free.
>> The good ones are all marked up,  the junk is junk.   (TPR's books are among
>> the very well-marked.)   It wouldn't bother me if my kids each took a couple
>> books each to remind them of their dear old bookish mum,  but the thought of
>> them having to get rid of thousands of books somewhere (the dump?) is hard -
>> I don't care for the books so much as for what my kids do with their time.
>>  They sure couldn't tote them 1000+ miles to where they live to put them in
>> storage at some ungodly cost only to be dumped by the grandkids.
>>
>> I am so glad for ebooks and audio books.  No storage- no dumping - no
>> clearing out.  I still buy all sorts of books - paperback, hard-cover,
>> ebook, audio but I've grown rather fonder of the Kindle for several reasons
>> (not least of which is the variable font size).
>>
>> Bekah
>>
> I'm totally in sync with Bekah on this.
>
> Having books around that have almost no chance of ever being picked up again
> doesn't make sense.
>
> The day of personal libraries that have to be dusted is over.
>
> P