Amazon Kindle: a round up
Amazon Kindle
This new device by Amazon tries to replace ordinary books and newspapers and already received some positive feedbacks. Here are some reviews and comparisons with the Sony’s Reader, but the main strength of Amazon Kindle is integration of the device with their huge online books database. Something like iPod and iTunes, but for books. Click on the image to the product’s page, great gift for the upcoming holidays.
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A New Reason The Kindle Sucks - This Time It's Availability and Monetization
by Allen Stern
I've written my 10 reasons the Kindle will fail and Scoble has provided his video on why it's a failure in the making. Even if the Kindle was a great device, today I have a new reason for failure. And what really sucks is that this should be great news for Amazon affiliates. Amazon is offering its affiliates $40 comission for each Kindle sold through their site. I have been an Amazon affiliate since the program began years ago and have enjoyed it. Forty-dollars comission is awesome and could certainly brighten up anyone's holiday season. I am sure many affiliates would want to promote this on their Web sites.
The Kindle, War Words, and the World’s Worse Airports (Heard ‘Round the Web)
It’s December, the end of the Gregorian year, when cash registers are ringing (hmmm—do cash registers actually ring any more?) and new goodies are bowing in, even as the ghosts of the past rattle their chains.
kindle maths 101
Chatting with someone from Random House's digital division on the day of the Kindle release, I suggested that dramatic price cuts on e-editions — in other words, finally acknowledging that digital copies aren't worth as much (especially when they come corseted in DRM) as physical hard copies — might be the crucial adjustment needed to at last blow open the digital book market. It seemed like a no-brainer to me that Amazon was charging way too much for its e-books (not to mention the Kindle itself). But upon closer inspection, it clearly doesn't add up that way. Tim O'Reilly explains why:
Amazon launches e-Reader
Amazon has just unveiled its latest platform in the US, the ‘Kindle’, an e-reader that enables readers to download digital books and read them on the 6-inch screen, at prices ranging from $2 to $20.In collaboration with the Sprint EV-DO network (access will be granted for free) Kindle users can log on from almost anywhere.Which eBook Reader is the Best?
Mistress.Erin writes "I cannot decide between Amazon's Kindle and Sony's Reader. I've read some reviews, but their motives can be somewhat suspect. So, I come to the most tech savvy group around to ask: which eBook reader is the best? If not Kindle or Reader, then what?" We've discussed this question before, but things have changed a bit since 2005.
I want a proper e-book reader as much as anyone, but...
I want a proper e-book reader as much as anyone, but Amazon's Kindle sounds underwhelming (and unfortunately looks, as a friend put it, like "the Pontiac Aztec of e-readers"). Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says:
This isn't a device, it's a service.
Scoble: Whomever Designed This Product Should Be Fired! (re:Kindle)
by Allen Stern
I've never seen Scoble go off, but he has lost it today :) He goes off on the Kindle and his review. From what I can tell from watching his video, his concerns fall into three categories: ecommerce, usability and social networking. He looks more like the bad dude from MI:III in this video!
Ten Quick Reasons the Kindle Will Fail
by Allen Stern
Here are ten quick reasons the Kindle
- It's big and ugly - it's no sleek iPhone
- I wasn't invited to the launch press and blogger meeting nor is the CN feed included in the device day 1.
- $399 to have the privilege of then buying books to read on the device? Can I get a Fail Fail?
- Isn't reading about the enjoyment of reading?
- So now I have to carry an iPod and a cell phone and a Kindle?
- Notice the large laptop bag in the demo video? That's because this guy has to carry his laptop, his cell phone, his iPod and now his kindle.
- Be a big hit with the ladies when you whip out your Kindle. "Hey Baby, I read!"
- It's the Homer Car - hat tip to Dan Lewis
- Can it do images or video? If not, how does it deal with books that have images or blogs that have videos? Is it Lynx all over again?
- Who wants to pay for the Scoble feed? Only if it comes with the whiteboard sessions!
Amazon launches digital reader
Amazon, the online retailer, has launched a $400 hand-held digital reader that it hopes will popularise the downloading of books, newspapers and print in the way that Apple has driven the growth of digital music
Amazon's electronic book turns a new page in the history of the written word Amazon yesterday launched its long-awaited – and undeniably natty – electronic book-reading device christened Kindle.
Review - Amazon's Kindle e-book My overwhelming sense after playing with the Kindle is that it is too little, too late to keep up with other technology
Opinion: Kindle: Book 2.0? I prefer 1.0.
Comments
I have never read so much garbage about the Kindle before. You need a firm rule not to publish anything about the Kindle from someone who doesn't own one, and uses it for themselves regularly. Such writers are merely trying to make themselves look "good" but instead come across as highly bigoted individuals who love to be negative in the wrong idea that such will make them look good. It doesn't.
Charles Wilkes, San Jose, Calif. -- a highly satisfied Kindle owner and user.
Posted by: Charles F. Wilkes | January 29, 2008 02:06 AM
Dear Charles, thanks for your comment. Kindle is one of the gadgets I fantasize to own but could not yet. These reviews did not really deter me but thanks very much for your opposing views! If you ever wanna write a short piece, the blog is at your service:)
Posted by: erkan | January 29, 2008 12:55 PM
hmm.. but does it let me underline the sentences or words that i like in the book? or when I finish the book, does it show that those pages were once opened and read? yes, i am talking about the emotional attachement... this is why, i am a bit reserved to this gadget at the moment. well, but if anyone would like to give it to me as a present, i wouldn't say no, of course.
Posted by: muzi | January 29, 2008 10:06 PM