People are currently paying ridiculous amounts of money for these devices on eBay. They once again sold out on Amazon.com (there is a 11 to 13 week long wait list).
Is the Amazon Kindle for real or is it one of the most creative marketing schemes in a long time?
Dave
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Is the Amazon Kindle for real
Define 'real' in this context.
But the success is coming from the hype generated from Oprah.
Define 'real' in this context.
A product that many consumers want or need.
A product that many consumers want or need.
Define many. Why not say what you really want to say?
Battery life isn't an issue as I've used the iphone for about 4 hours straight with the display on and playing music constantly and the battery dropped by about 1/3rd. It's not the 24 hour battery life touted by Kindle but it'll do between 8-12 hours easily and that's enough between charges IMO.
The kindle also has no backlight so if you are next to a partner in bed, your light has to be on unlike with the iphone or ipod touch.
The iphone/ipod are smaller but looking at the real-world size, not that much smaller:
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/our-kindl...bed-325939.php
Kindle doesn't have wifi either nor does it have color for books that might have the odd image like a book about artists and their work for example or comic books.
I really think that Apple are missing out by not having ebooks as an itunes store category. Simply offer color versions of Calvin & Hobbes etc and Kindle can't compete. You'd hold the screen in landscape mode and scroll down a single page at a time. Then simply swish to the left to flip to the next page like you do in the photo app.
I really think that Apple are missing out by not having ebooks as an itunes store category. Simply offer color versions of Calvin & Hobbes etc and Kindle can't compete. You'd hold the screen in landscape mode and scroll down a single page at a time. Then simply swish to the left to flip to the next page like you do in the photo app.
There is a whole top level Book category in the App Store.
There is a whole top level Book category in the App Store.
Yeah but like I was saying, the selection is way too small and it's not really Apple providing the books or the readers:
http://appengines.com/bookreader.html
968 books total on the App Store and over 150 are religious, another 100 Japanese books. The AppEngines seller has the most varied collection of books but only has about 200 and mainly the classic books. The Amazon store had 90,000 titles ready for the Kindle launch.
I think Apple need to make a standard reader and use a standard ebook distribution format. Surely they can link up with some major publisher while also allowing distribution in the standard format.