iPad – Part 7: Tale of Two Readers
At the Wired Conference in New York City last year Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon, talked about his strategy for the Kindle. He described it as two-pronged. First is to make sure that Amazon content is readable on all the various devices in the market. The other prong is to make the Kindle competitive versus […]
iPad Thoughts
I confess — the doorway did not get out of my sight for the entire day yesterday. I had placed my order early in the morning on March 12 and when the first tranch of thousands of iPads left China for Louisville, KY and then to Orlando and on to Daytona and then onto a […]
Electronic Books
While e-book technology is racing forward, the publishers are stuck in the past. Several of them have announced that they will make new best sellers available on e-books only after the physical book has been for sale for at least several months. They think that if a hot new book comes out you will go […]
Kindle 2 Update
And now we have the Kindle 2, the next generation wireless reading device. I am really pleased with so far. At just over 1/3 inch and 10.2 ounces, the new device is very sleek — as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperback. It is not radically different than the original Kindle […]
Kindle 2
The “e-book” — replacing the paper book with something electronic — is not a new idea. Project Gutenberg started in 1971 and now has a collection of more than 25,000 books which have been digitized. Digital books can be read on a PC and there are various software offerings that can enable you to read […]
