Kindle: A Step

June 11, 2008

Kindle: A Step

by Odile

"The Kindle is far less the start of a revolution than the codification of one. It’s a declaration of war long after most of the contested lands have been conquered."

I have been waiting to hear or read, for that matter, something reasonable about Kindle. Nothing with the word "beginning" or "end" in every other sentence. And here it is.

Ezra Klein has written a wonderful article in the latest issue of the Columbia Journalism Review about what the introduction of e-reading means to us, but, also to the larger media landscape.

 

 

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Odile's picture

Lynn Neary's story on NPR

Lynn Neary's story on NPR about taking the Kindle to the pool is on target!

You may not take it for a swim yet, but electronic reading is here to stay! I never thought I'd read the NYT on a Blackberry but I often do. Rob Pegoraro, a technology writer, who goes and play Lifeguard with Neary, nails is: "It's not quite the iPod of eBook readers." -- To be the Zune ain't too shabby either, is not it?

posted by Odile on July 7, 2008 at 7:05 AM
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Lina, at the 2008 BookExpo

Lina, at the 2008 BookExpo America convention, Amazon.com founder Jeff Bezos revealed that one in 20 people buy the electronic version of a book rather than the printed version. However, Kindle e-book sales account for only six percent of overall sales titles “where two versions – a hard copy and an electronic version – were available.”
Times Online, May 29

http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/article4027106.ece
OR http://tinyurl.com/4djzsz

posted by KeiraSoleore (not verified) on June 16, 2008 at 2:36 PM
KeiraSoleore's picture

I'm just a conservative

I'm just a conservative dinosaur :) as far as technology (hardware, not software) goes. My phone has just a camera, which I worked this past weekend for the first time, after owning the phone for *cough* two years.

posted by KeiraSoleore (not verified) on June 11, 2008 at 8:08 PM
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I admit. I love watching TV

I admit. I love watching TV shows on my iphone. Guilty.

posted by Lina on June 11, 2008 at 8:03 PM
KeiraSoleore's picture

Those people who were

Those people who were willing to read on PDAs and phones (I know) are all over the versatility of the Kindle. I might end up being one of the last hold-outs for the printed book.

posted by KeiraSoleore (not verified) on June 11, 2008 at 8:01 PM
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Not that I'm jumping on the

Not that I'm jumping on the Kindle bandwagon anytime soon - but I saw one for the first time the other day, and as ugly as it looks, it felt easy to handle and no squinting was necessary.

posted by Lina on June 11, 2008 at 4:55 PM
KeiraSoleore's picture

I remember the dread that

I remember the dread that had flooded me when the news about the Kindle first broke. So far, it had been easy to ignore all the dire predictions for the end of the book. The Kindle is, to me, the first real contender for the printed page, not that I could even imagine myself going over to the side of technology. I'd rather cough over medieval texts attached with chains that squint over a Kindle.

posted by KeiraSoleore (not verified) on June 11, 2008 at 3:16 PM