Martin Writes: With this beginning you can guess that this writer is underwhelmed by the Kindle. He says Once again, the industry has misread what readers want.
“What with recession in the air, there isn’t much to laugh about in the American economy this holiday season. So we should be grateful to the high-tech industrial complex for once again staging the hilarious comedy that’s become an annual holiday tradition, right up there with A Christmas Carol. Yes, the farce known as the e-book is back this year, thanks to Amazon.com and its new device, the Kindle — which, like innumerable electronic books before it, promises to kill off books printed on paper. This is what makes the perennial e-book ritual so delightfully absurd. It’s a revolution with no popular support, a technological turning point that never turns, despite the best efforts of its credulous promoters.”
The article mentions the
The article mentions the possibility that the Kindle may insert ads into your reading experience in the future. The essay in last Sunday’s (12/2/2007) New York Times Book Review is about when ads appeared in books – mostly cigarettes, I believe – in the 1970s. Hopefully, since the practice died out once, it would die out again, should it reappear (authors certainly had something to say about this practice).
Nothing like “Don’t miss the Biggest Loser tonight at 7!” to jerk you out of the events of a dark and stormy night.
Choosing Ads
If Amazon puts ads in their Kindle books I predict that they will let people choose if they want the ads. It may look something like this:
Kindle edition of “Brave New World” $10
Sponsored edition of “Brave New World” $8
Sponsored edition will contain ads. Or it might even look like this which will cause even more people to go for the ads:
Kindle edition of “Brave New World” $10
Sponsored edition of “Brave New World” $0
Why you should be reading a Kindle on your Segway right now
You just don’t understand. Jeff Bezos explained it all to me:
http://www.wittycomics.com/comic/32887
Oh the Negativity
Apparently this guy hasn’t got the memo! He’s ‘spose to be drooling all over this thing.
Oh the negativity! How dare he “pre-“judge the thing based on past knowledge and experience. I hate it when so-called experts act so adult-like.
eReader of the Future
I’ve seen the eReader of the Future and it works!