Comments on: Amazon.com Introduces Kindle http://pulse2.com/2007/11/19/amazoncom-introduces-kindle/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 16:32:11 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: moneillig http://pulse2.com/2007/11/19/amazoncom-introduces-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-14565 moneillig Sun, 03 Aug 2008 00:40:25 +0000 http://pulse2.com/2007/11/19/amazoncom-introduces-kindle/#comment-14565 Brilliant! Brilliant!

]]> By: SYLVESTER WADE http://pulse2.com/2007/11/19/amazoncom-introduces-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-11037 SYLVESTER WADE Tue, 22 Jan 2008 04:47:22 +0000 http://pulse2.com/2007/11/19/amazoncom-introduces-kindle/#comment-11037 I would like to know if I can publish poetry and other manuscripts using the kindle.I would like to make known my work using this method if possible.If I can use this method I would like to have a telephone number or web site to access information. Thanks. I would like to know if I can publish poetry and other manuscripts using the kindle.I would like to make known my work using this method if possible.If I can use this method I would like to have a telephone number or web site to access information. Thanks.

]]> By: Nathaniel CJE Culver http://pulse2.com/2007/11/19/amazoncom-introduces-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-10592 Nathaniel CJE Culver Thu, 22 Nov 2007 23:06:44 +0000 http://pulse2.com/2007/11/19/amazoncom-introduces-kindle/#comment-10592 1) The Kindle requires batteries. My books don't. This really touches on long-term stability of ebooks. A physical book I buy can sit on my shelf for ten years and be as accessible then as the day I bought it. Given the way technology tends to evolve and change, today's ebook formats are tomorrow's refuse. 2) Proprietary content lock-in. Sure, to Amazon the Kindle is more a content-delivery service than a product, but if I can't read my Project Gutenberg DVD on it, I'm not interested. Paying $400 just for the "right" to buy books at $10 a pop isn't attractive to me. 3) DRM. You can't loan, resell, or even back up the ebooks you buy on your own PC. Instead, Amazon.com stores them on its servers for re-download in case of data loss. 4) The whole EVDO/Sprint thing means content is only available if you're in the US. Kind of leaves out the rest of us. 1) The Kindle requires batteries. My books don’t. This really touches on long-term stability of ebooks. A physical book I buy can sit on my shelf for ten years and be as accessible then as the day I bought it. Given the way technology tends to evolve and change, today’s ebook formats are tomorrow’s refuse.

2) Proprietary content lock-in. Sure, to Amazon the Kindle is more a content-delivery service than a product, but if I can’t read my Project Gutenberg DVD on it, I’m not interested. Paying $400 just for the “right” to buy books at $10 a pop isn’t attractive to me.

3) DRM. You can’t loan, resell, or even back up the ebooks you buy on your own PC. Instead, Amazon.com stores them on its servers for re-download in case of data loss.

4) The whole EVDO/Sprint thing means content is only available if you’re in the US. Kind of leaves out the rest of us.

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