You Don’t Personal Me – Bredemarket
(AI photographs from Imagen 3)
Maybe one of many greatest adjustments over the past a number of many years is that we not possess bodily issues.
Previous and new music
When a few of us had been youthful, we might at all times go to “the document retailer” to purchase a CD or cassette or vinyl (the “document”) or possibly an 8 observe. We might put the bodily media on a playback system. And except the media had been broken or stolen, you at all times had it. RCA wouldn’t come to your home and take your Elvis document.
Then providers from Napster 1.0 to Apple to Spotify began to offer music in digital type. And now your music COULD be taken away. When Neil Younger bought mad at Spotify, I couldn’t take heed to Neil any extra. (They subsequently kissed and made up.)
That is true of many different issues: TV reveals, motion pictures, even pc software program.
Which brings us to books.
Previous and new books
You might as soon as purchase books at your native bookstore, or from a web-based bookstore known as Amazon. However then Amazon developed the Kindle e-reader. And as The Verge factors out, one thing on the Kindle in the present day is probably not there tomorrow.
“Amazon has sometimes eliminated books from its on-line retailer and remotely deleted them from Kindles or edited titles and re-uploaded new copies to its e-readers. In 2009, the corporate eliminated copies of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-4 and Animal Farm, explaining the books had been mistakenly revealed. Extra just lately, a lot of Roald Dahl’s books, together with Charlie and the Chocolate Manufacturing unit, had been changed with up to date copies that includes modified language on numerous e-book platforms. It’s a reminder that you simply don’t truly personal a lot of the digital content material you eat, and with out the power to again up copies of ebooks, you would lose them solely in the event that they’re banned and eliminated.”
However there’s a workaround. In case your Kindle has a replica of Mein Kampf or a ebook about homosexual hotspots close to the Gulf of Mexico and also you don’t need to lose it, it can save you it outdoors of the Amazon ecosystem.
“(The function is) nonetheless accessible via Amazon’s web site by accessing your “Content material Library” whereas logged into your account. For bought books you choose the “Extra actions” menu, select “Obtain & switch by way of USB,” choose a Kindle system you’ve registered, and a replica of the ebook will likely be downloaded to your pc.”
A pleasant function…particularly if you wish to be sure you don’t lose your bought content material. And it’s very nice if you wish to put your Amazon content material on a non-Amazon e-reader. As a result of the Kindle solely has a minuscule 72% share of the e-reader market, it is a gargantuan risk to Amazon’s skill to promote {hardware}.
You’ll be able to see the place that is going.
Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes
Amazon has made a change, in line with The Verge:
“Beginning February 26, 2025, the ‘Obtain & Switch by way of USB’ choice will not be accessible. You’ll be able to nonetheless ship Kindle books to your Wi-Fi enabled units by deciding on the ‘Ship or Take away from System’ choice.”
To make clear, you’ll be able to nonetheless entry your books on the Kindle app.
Simply not outdoors of it.
How does this have an effect on your content material?
This serves as a reminder about technological change, walled gardens, and obsolescence.
Which ties in with one in all Bredemarket’s favourite matters, repurposing.
You’ll be able to take content material from one platform and place it on one other. For instance, a (largely) textual content publish can turn out to be a video reel.
Now Bredemarket doesn’t create movies for purchasers, however in case you want your id/biometric or know-how textual content repurposed in one other format, I may also help.
