AS HEARD ON - The Jim Polito Show - WTAG 580 AM: Amazon, Digital Rights, Libraries, and Apple Music

<p>Good morning, everybody.</p> <p>I was on this morning on WTAG with Jim Polito.   We discussed the new Amazon, ebooks, libraries, digital rights management and what some States are demanding from Amazon. Here we go with Jim.</p> <p>For more tech tips, news, and updates, visit - <a href= "https://craigpeterson.com">CraigPeterson.com</a>.</p> <p><strong>--- </strong></p> <p><strong>Automated Machine Generated Transcript:</strong></p> <p><strong>Craig Peterson:</strong> [00:00:00] In Rhode Island have bills as well as New York that would require Amazon, as well as everybody else, to sell eBooks to libraries with quote reasonable terms endquote.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><strong>Jim Polito:</strong> [00:00:13] Okay.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><strong>Craig Peterson:</strong> [00:00:14] Hey everybody, Craig Peterson here. Just got off the phone with Mr. Jim Polito and we had some fun talking about libraries, Jeff Bezos and even George Orwell, got into the act here. Anyhow, here we go with Mr. Jim Polito.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><strong>Jim Polito:</strong> [00:00:34] Hey, Amazon started off as a place to sell books. You know, online books and they basically destroyed the bookstore.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span> I mean, we contributed to it. But now it seems that they're out to destroy libraries. Taking over the world, isn't enough for these folks.</p> <p>I don't know, that's the accusation. Well, let's see if we can confirm it. Let's bring in our good friend and tech talk guru of Craig peterson.com. The man that website is named after, Craig Peterson.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p>Good morning, Craig.<span class= "Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><strong>Craig Peterson:</strong> [00:01:13] Good morning, Jim.<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></p> <p><strong>Jim Polito:</strong> [00:01:14] Oh, so here's the deal? We were just talking a little while ago about Jeff Bezos, started with his gar