[rickdeckard]

Everybody, get up, we're leaving. Jailbreak your kindles and move to epub. It's not that difficult.

Buy books at Kobo or bookshop.org

There are so many functional kindles out there, this could be the event that changes the power dynamic and puts the author-reader relationship back in the center instead of the publisher/distributor.

It's what's slowly happening in the Movie industry now: The studios learn that they can't create sustainable value by just spending money and adding stars to a production. But directors create value. So they are suddenly put front and center and actively promoted.