kindle
maskit has warned me not to buy the new Kindle from Amazon. her weak argument was that i don’t need it. which is never a good enough reason to pass on a new gadget. so far i didn’t buy it, yet…
it looks great in the demo videos. i have one issue with it. their choice to include mobile access (over the Sprint network) makes sense in terms of the ubiquity of access, but it should not have been in the expense of including WiFi. with WiFi they could have enabled users to access all the free content that is out there and save on some bandwidth cost. i don’t want to pay for access to blogs and newspapers that are offered for free. it doesn’t make sense.
there are graveyards junkyards filled with previous eReaders, yet this one seems really appealing in terms of its display, weight and wireless connectivity. i wonder how book publishers think of eReaders. it seems that if for whatever reason they become successful like iPods, the book industry will have to face the same challenges as the Music and Movie industry are going through.
if it is digital it is going to be pirated. and i don’t think writers will have the option of making millions of dollars from book tours (like pop artists do).
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books will never die. more than that, yeah you might want to read blogs on the road using this thing, you might even want to take a few books with you, but the experience is being changed heavily. with music and video nothing really changed in the basic experience, with books its a major change and its an unwanted one. and the blogs and news, better access them from a good all rounder connected device like the iphone (or at least what it should be).
Anything these days without WiFi build in is just plain stupid. I want to get the speed an convenience at home from WiFi, no matter if it is my iPhone (which I also consider selling), my camera, my Nokia E or N Series phone, my picture frame, my mp3 player, my house phone, my dog, my cat, my TV, my kids….
Just came across your blog on Google. Interesting post, you bring up a few good things to think about. Good luck with the blog.
Just came across your blog on Google. Interesting post, you bring up a few good things to think about. Good luck with the blog.