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Publishing Frontier
Publishing Frontier (pubfrontier.com) has great Amazon Kindle news, photos, videos and more
Sunday, Mar 22
What Were Once Devices Are Now Habits
The iPhone and Touch portend much more the future than the Kindle. While the Kindle works great as a reading device, accomplishing that feat with panache, I don’t think that enough people really want a reading device, and a separate talking device, and a writing device, and so on. Do I want to...
Tuesday, Oct 21
ebooks and the iPhone
I’ve been pondering the ebook situation with respect to the upcoming (Friday) launch of the iPhone App Store. One of the problems hardware devices like the Sony Reader and the Kindle have to contend with is competition with other reading platforms like the paperback book, or the library b...
the Kindle and the iPhone dance
Now that both the Kindle and the iPhone are out, it’s interesting to look at the very similar business strategy behind the two products. I think most of the E-Ink ebook readers in the market are doomed to failure. They don’t do enough, and what they do, they do poorly. The world gave up [...]
Opinion: contra kindle
Technology Review asked for my thoughts on Kindle. Here they are, slightly emended. No one can doubt that digitization and the Internet together with various factors intrinsic to the publishing industry will radically transform the distribution of books: books can now be transmitted l...
Thursday, Oct 9
How the Kindle and Its Kin Will Reduce Book Sales
The Kindle is a watershed event in electronic publishing. It is not the first ebook device, and it may not ultimately be the one that will prevail (it could of course be one of several). But its appearance marks the point where ebooks move from theory to actuality. Whether the leading device...
