For your consideration: Save Big Money By Exercising Your Rights With E-Books!

The Money Kings stand in awe. When we were in New York we saw ads for Amazon's Kindle e-book reader all over the place--as if Amazon.com invented this technology. Anyway, we see the ads. We think, "Great. Another e-book machine that people who know nothing about all those machines that came before it will start saying is an innovation in the same way they believe everything made by Apple, Inc. is also an innovation.

DISCLAIMER: The point of this article is not to articulate the benefits and/or pitfalls of Kindle. We really don't care about Kindle at all. We won't even give you a link to the thing.

The point of this article is to wake people up to the idea that they are being tricked out of their rights through mass advertisement, and supposed authoritative commentary.

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The Money Kings are not in awe of the Kindle. We are NOT in awe of Jeff Bezos. We do not think the Kindle gives e-book technology sex appeal. The Money Kings are in awe of a little article written about the Kindle in the November 11th, 2007 edition of Newsweek magazine. The article was written by someone named: Steven Levy.

The article isn't really exciting except for the section where he mentions how "cheap" it is to order classics for your new Kindle machine. In fact, he mentions downloading Charles Dickens' book Bleak House for ONLY $1.99.

FREEZE!!! Right there . . .

That's right readers. Steven Levy is telling us he paid $1.99 to Amazon for the distinct right to download a book to an electronic reading machine that is . . . drum roll please . . . OUT OF COPYRIGHT protection.

What Steven Levy should tell you is:

"Amazon has just figured out a way to charge people for content that NO ONE has copyright protection over. And customers are taking the bait! Opa!"

Readers, please, please, please, please, please remember one huge money saving tip with intellectual property: Copyright exists for your protection as a creator of work. It exists for all creators' protection and for the stimulation of generation of content via the promise of compensation. It's an easy concept. It also has a built in clause TO END, thereby completing the cycle of dissemination to the public sphere for unlimited consumption.

You pay for these protections. That's one of the million things those people in something called THE GOVERNMENT are paid to do.

If you want to read Bleak House or any of Shakespeare's plays or any number of classical works, you have one tool at your hand that will help you do this for free. It's called the World Wide Web. Just do a Google search for what you want to read, and you'll be amazed at what you'll find. Heck, talk to someone in your local library and they'll give you even more tips on getting access to content freely provided by the rights for which you pay each time you pay taxes and support government.

You can even get classic e-books directly on your mobile device, free of charge from these guys:

booksinmyphone.com

SAVE YOUR MONEY. DON'T EAT AMAZON.COM's OR STEVEN LEVY's OR NEWSWEEK's CHEESE. This is one case where the government's cheese will suit you and your wallet just fine.

Happy Reading.


The Money Kings

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