Kindle: Some Food for Thought
Posted by Scott on Nov 20th, 2007
Jeff Bezos demonstrates his business genius again with Kindle, their new eBook reader. Unfortunately, there are some other ramifications of proprietary eBook systems. Mark Pilgrim summarizes them well (and demonstrates some flip-flopping by Bezos) in this 5-act “play.”
Richard Stallman’s essay The Right to Read is referenced in this article and is definitely worth reading in and of itself.
Don’t get me wrong – I’d love a better platform for reading PDFs and web pages than my Nokia N770 web tablet. But Kindle is definitely not for me.
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