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• 06.19.08
  Will you people please stop writing that ebooks will “kill publishing”? News, commentary | (1)

  What is wrong with you people? You readers and authors out there who say you love books, but then wring your hands about "the future of publishing" and behave as if ebook technology is somehow anti-literacy--what is it you really love? I suspect it's the book as an object, not as a device to transmit the written word. Are you avid readers, or simply book fetishists? The latest nonsensical fear about the future of publishing and the threat of the Kindle comes from an opinion piece in the New York Times this week. Eleanor Randolph writes (emphasis mine), There are darker questions ...

  Tagged: death of the publishing industry, e-books, ebooks, kindle, opinion, publishing industry, technophobia
  
• 04.30.08
  Suggestions For Kindle 2.0 commentary | (0)

  Give me the ability to turn the page buttons on and off. I like the option of page buttons on both sides of the device, but odds are high each user will use one side most of the time. Accidental page flips could be avoided if you could go into Settings and, for example, tell the Kindle to ignore any presses on the long "Next Page" button on the right hand side. Put the volume buttons on the face of the device. There are so few edges on the Kindle where you can grab it or rest it against something. The bottom is ...

  Tagged: ebook, feedback, improvements, kindle, opinion, reader, suggestions, user experience
  
• 04.29.08
  Yeah, I’m locked in. So what? commentary | (0)

  I walked past my neighborhood Barnes & Noble store today and realized I have very few reasons to go into it anymore, except to buy magazines (which are still far too underrepresented on the Kindle store). It would simply be a waste of money to buy a physical book if it's available for less on my Kindle. Talk about being locked into an ecosystem! It's iTunes all over again. But as with iTunes, instead of being bothered by it I felt oddly liberated. As I felt with Apple and music, I feel Amazon is disinterested in trying to control how I ...

  Tagged: Amazon, commentary, customer, drm, ecosystem, feedback, kindle, locked in, opinion, shackles, thoughts, user
  

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