Comments on: Latest on e-books: Amazon’s Kindle http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/e-books/latest-on-e-books-amazons-kinble/ Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:05:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: Peter http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/e-books/latest-on-e-books-amazons-kinble/#comment-94 Peter Wed, 21 Nov 2007 12:29:55 +0000 http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/e-books/latest-on-e-books-amazons-kinble/#comment-94 Excellent round up of both positive and negative reactions to Kindle. I think I'm in the techdirt camp - a solution in search of a problem. As Seth Godin says, books don't need a $399 reader to start with. I'm sure Amazon have done their market research - but I'm not buying the 'ipod for books' line. Ipods offered something worthwhile (thousands of tracks that you can store and flip between) - but most people only want to read one book at a time, and a single book is probably easier to carry than the Kindle. Excellent round up of both positive and negative reactions to Kindle. I think I’m in the techdirt camp - a solution in search of a problem. As Seth Godin says, books don’t need a $399 reader to start with. I’m sure Amazon have done their market research - but I’m not buying the ‘ipod for books’ line. Ipods offered something worthwhile (thousands of tracks that you can store and flip between) - but most people only want to read one book at a time, and a single book is probably easier to carry than the Kindle.

]]> By: Phil Bradley's weblog: Amazon's Kindle in the UK http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/e-books/latest-on-e-books-amazons-kinble/#comment-92 Phil Bradley's weblog: Amazon's Kindle in the UK Tue, 20 Nov 2007 16:59:44 +0000 http://chamberlain.net.nz/blog/e-books/latest-on-e-books-amazons-kinble/#comment-92 [...] it in Newsweek or read about it in the library/information weblogs here and here and here or over here. However, don't expect to go to the UK Amazon site and find anything on it, oh no. Doesn't exist. I [...] […] it in Newsweek or read about it in the library/information weblogs here and here and here or over here. However, don’t expect to go to the UK Amazon site and find anything on it, oh no. Doesn’t exist. I […]

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