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Kindle: Colour me still unconvinced

Started by mathewi · 1 year ago

So Amazon has launched the Kindle, its e-book reader, with a press release and an event with CEO Jeff Bezos, which TechCrunch is live-blogging. Several sites have hands-on details, including Engadget (which I would be happy to pay for, Ryan, just not via a monthly fee).
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    The blog thing is super dumb, but I guess they're hoping to get some money for things that will require significant cell bandwidth use. That said, this will create a great niche for a web-based RSS reader made specifically to work on the Spindle web browser.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Definitely, Jake. And how much bandwidth is the average blog going to
    use anyway?
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  • Jake

    1 year ago

    Well my thinking is that a blog creates continuous, regular bandwidth use, whereas a book is a one-time (or maybe two- or three-time, but not many-time) bandwidth hit. Depending on how it works (like whether the user can manually check for updates or if it's automatic and occasional), a blog subscription could use up a lot more bandwidth than a book.

    Amazon will have a better idea of how this works, money-wise, once people start using it. I would be surprised if they don't revise this position once the nerds start revolting.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Good point Jake.
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  • Greg

    1 year ago

    Can someone say... Segway?
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Good one, Greg.
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  • Constance Reader

    1 year ago

    Another "WTF?" feature is that in order to download a public domain book to this thing you have to pay, but why would someone do that instead of sending that browser over to the Gutenberg Project or Google book search?
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    Good point, Constance.
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  • Constance Reader

    1 year ago

    But it could be that this thing will work. I wrote on my own blog that while it seems really, really stupid to imagine that people would pay for something they can get for free, I looked over at my colleague's desk.

    At the $3 bottle of water.

    So as stupid as it may sound, it has precedent.
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  • Norm Potter

    1 year ago

    Look for a wireless Apple tablet computer coming in January 2008.
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  • mathewi

    1 year ago

    depending on the price, weight, etc. that could kill the Kindle dead.
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  • Roy

    1 year ago

    Does it do color? Seems aimed at the novel (fiction) market... so non-fiction is out methinks. Personally I will stick with my Tungsten for a while longer.
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