Comments on: Frankfurt launch for Amazon Kindle? Plus—how much more clueless can p-publishers get about E? http://www.teleread.com/drm/frankfurt-launch-for-amazon-kindle-plus-how-much-more-clueless-can-the-p-book-biz-get-about-e/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 23:28:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dave Adams http://www.teleread.com/drm/frankfurt-launch-for-amazon-kindle-plus-how-much-more-clueless-can-the-p-book-biz-get-about-e/comment-page-1/#comment-530027 Dave Adams Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:35:28 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7098#comment-530027 Oops, of course I meant "a keyboard from an IBM PcJr, not a PS1. Oops, of course I meant “a keyboard from an IBM PcJr, not a PS1.

]]> By: Dave Adams http://www.teleread.com/drm/frankfurt-launch-for-amazon-kindle-plus-how-much-more-clueless-can-the-p-book-biz-get-about-e/comment-page-1/#comment-530025 Dave Adams Fri, 14 Sep 2007 14:33:12 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7098#comment-530025 That's a keyboard from an IBM PS1, isn't it? The device looks like a Commodore PET that's been on the losing end of a battle with a steam roller. That’s a keyboard from an IBM PS1, isn’t it?
The device looks like a Commodore PET that’s been on the losing end of a battle with a steam roller.

]]> By: James Bridle http://www.teleread.com/drm/frankfurt-launch-for-amazon-kindle-plus-how-much-more-clueless-can-the-p-book-biz-get-about-e/comment-page-1/#comment-529799 James Bridle Fri, 14 Sep 2007 10:19:22 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7098#comment-529799 I'm going on the assumption that the picture is a prototype (because if it's not, I wholeheartedly agree with the above)... If the Kindle - about which, let's be honest, we know next to nothing - really does have all the whiz-bang wifi features being touted, then it's going to cost a bit, but I can't see a reason why it shouldn't equal or even beat Sony's price. But the main point is that it's an e-ink device - are you really going to want to surf anything other than Amazon's ebook store with it? Ugh. If they haven't learnt the lessons of the Sony Connect store when it comes to DRM, then they don't deserve to succeed, but it's all idle speculation anyway. I still think the iphone/ipod will be the ipod for books eventually, but roll on Frankfurt... I’m going on the assumption that the picture is a prototype (because if it’s not, I wholeheartedly agree with the above)…

If the Kindle – about which, let’s be honest, we know next to nothing – really does have all the whiz-bang wifi features being touted, then it’s going to cost a bit, but I can’t see a reason why it shouldn’t equal or even beat Sony’s price. But the main point is that it’s an e-ink device – are you really going to want to surf anything other than Amazon’s ebook store with it? Ugh.

If they haven’t learnt the lessons of the Sony Connect store when it comes to DRM, then they don’t deserve to succeed, but it’s all idle speculation anyway. I still think the iphone/ipod will be the ipod for books eventually, but roll on Frankfurt…

]]> By: Dana Hartsock http://www.teleread.com/drm/frankfurt-launch-for-amazon-kindle-plus-how-much-more-clueless-can-the-p-book-biz-get-about-e/comment-page-1/#comment-529405 Dana Hartsock Fri, 14 Sep 2007 01:49:59 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7098#comment-529405 DRM aside I would not be caught dead using the device as seen in the picture. It does not look at all comfortable to hold. In fact It looks like something designed in the 50s. Maybe, maybe, someday there will be standard DRM to go with the open format. Only then will we see an inexpensive reader. I think it is possible to build a device acceptable to most people interested in eBooks for $200 today. But it is destined to fail as long as it must conform to a proprietary DRM scheme. And it is destined to fail if it does not support DRM because nothing from major publishers will be available. Dana DRM aside I would not be caught dead using the device as seen in the picture. It does not look at all comfortable to hold. In fact It looks like something designed in the 50s.

Maybe, maybe, someday there will be standard DRM to go with the open format. Only then will we see an inexpensive reader. I think it is possible to build a device acceptable to most people interested in eBooks for $200 today. But it is destined to fail as long as it must conform to a proprietary DRM scheme. And it is destined to fail if it does not support DRM because nothing from major publishers will be available.

Dana

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