Apparently the big news in publishing this week is the unveiling of Amazon's new wireless reading device, called Kindle (and no, I'm not linking to it).
Frankly, I find the name kind of offensive. Fahrenheit 451 anyone? If you've tried this 'next big thing', post a comment and let us know what you think. Thanks!
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2 comments:
I think Nathan Bransford got it right: The iPod beat portable CD players because it was more convenient (I had considered pre-iPod getting an MP3 player but decided that the process of having to re-load it every day was going to be a pain... But most people only ever want one book at a time (and even a book junkie like me seldom carries more than three at a time). The case for something like this, still hasn't been made.
I think we'll need to see something like a book rental model for it to take off... the idea that you could pay, say $4-5 to have a book on the device for a preset time (or perhaps a netflix model where you get one book at a time in a queue-type arrangement with no due dates) might make sense, but the current set-up doesn't appeal to me at all.
I'm with you Don. There are also so many convenient things to download books onto already. Kindle doesn't seem different enough for me to invest.
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