So, I was explaining the kindle to my mom recently, and she asked me a question, “If I buy a book for your kindle, is amazon’s website smart enough to prevent me from buying something you already bought?”. I assured her that Amazon wasn’t that stupid, and that I was sure it would manage my wishlist sanely. Then I went home and started looking into it, and discovered that Mr Bezos, in all his crack-whackery, decided that kindle users don’t have friends or family that love them, I guess. It seems that you CAN’T give a kindle book as a gift to someone who owns a kindle device.
Frankly, I’m aghast with flabergastery. Books as gifts is hardly a corner-case scenario. It seems like the kind of functionality an e-book system shouldn’t ship without on day-one, much less at the half-year mark.
DRM headaches, I can deal with, but such a moronic decision as to deliberately not allow people to give you the money they’ve decided to spend? That’s the kind of thing that pisses me off. You don’t want people to give me gifts, Mr Bezos? Well then fine, I’m not giving anyone a gift thru your system ever again.
Tags: jeff bezos, kindle, stupid