The only thing that really bothers me about Hugh Howey is that it would seem he is directing new / aspiring writers to Amazon and Amazon KDP Select in
preference to other platforms / venues.
Not exact matches
For one, Amazon, like
other e-book sellers, has used a scheme known as «digital rights management» (DRM), which limits the types of devices that can read certain e-book formats.259 Compelling readers
to purchase a Kindle through cheap e-books locks them into future e-book purchases from Amazon.260 Moreover, buying — or even browsing — e-books on Amazon's
platform hands the company information about your reading habits and
preferences, data the company uses
to tailor recommendations and future deals.261 Replicated across a few more purchases, Amazon's lock - in becomes strong.
These strategies are: (1) physical separation by temporarily converting the two enantiomers into two diastereomers (called resolution); (2) physical separation in a chiral chromatographic environment; (3) chemical discrimination in a chiral environment (using enzymes or
other chiral
platforms as chemical reagents); and (4) asymmetric synthesis of one enantiomer in
preference to the
other.
Tinder is owned by Match Group, but it's late
to the party:
other online dating
platforms within Match Group, such as OkCupid, have already added more gender
preferences to their
platforms.
Unlike real world dating, where it takes a significant amount of time
to understand the
other partner and his / her
preferences, online dating
platforms accomplish at the initial stages.
Skype, Google Hangouts, and
other online
platforms give you the power
to determine their
preferences, motivations, and training needs.
Whatever Amazon chooses, will they show
preference to that
platform over iPhone and the
others?
Give the player's what they want, the ability
to play with
others regardless of
platform and
preference.
Depending on your mobile
platform preference, the
other smartwatch
to... watch... is Apple's upcoming Apple Watch, which will launch in April.