Comments on: OF COURSE Amazon will do a large-screen Kindle http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/of-course-amazon-will-do-a-large-screen-kindle/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Wed, 15 Feb 2012 05:35:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Rich Adin http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/of-course-amazon-will-do-a-large-screen-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1036095 Rich Adin Sat, 11 Apr 2009 19:50:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/11/of-course-amazon-will-do-a-large-screen-kindle/#comment-1036095 My hope is that newspapers will be smart enough to find s device that is not connected to Amazon and that is more open. If newspapers think they are struggling now, just wait until Amazon dominates the newspaper digital delivery market -- that will be when they really discover, and newspaper readers will discover, too, just how much squeezing can be done. If my newspapers (that is, the ones to which I subscribe) go digital, the only way I would go digital on a Kindle is if they gave me the Kindle at no cost and no obligation. I am willing to pay for an open and well-designed device, but not for a device that ties me to Amazon. My hope is that newspapers will be smart enough to find s device that is not connected to Amazon and that is more open. If newspapers think they are struggling now, just wait until Amazon dominates the newspaper digital delivery market — that will be when they really discover, and newspaper readers will discover, too, just how much squeezing can be done.

If my newspapers (that is, the ones to which I subscribe) go digital, the only way I would go digital on a Kindle is if they gave me the Kindle at no cost and no obligation. I am willing to pay for an open and well-designed device, but not for a device that ties me to Amazon.

]]> By: Daniel Udsen http://www.teleread.com/ebooks/of-course-amazon-will-do-a-large-screen-kindle/comment-page-1/#comment-1036046 Daniel Udsen Sat, 11 Apr 2009 17:49:03 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/2009/04/11/of-course-amazon-will-do-a-large-screen-kindle/#comment-1036046 This is probably going to be the hardest market for Amazon to make a dent in firstly nobody studies more then 5 feet from a laptop computer in this day and age, secondly students are tech savy enough to be comfortable around almost any kind of web/desktop app and is used to it, secondly and in one word safari, theres no way in hell the textbook publishers are going to discount amazon more then theyll discount safari so amazon wont get the prize advantage in this market. And well today most professors hand out classnotes and compendiums in electronic form(with the Computer Science professors as the nootorius exeption). This is probably going to be the hardest market for Amazon to make a dent in firstly nobody studies more then 5 feet from a laptop computer in this day and age, secondly students are tech savy enough to be comfortable around almost any kind of web/desktop app and is used to it, secondly and in one word safari, theres no way in hell the textbook publishers are going to discount amazon more then theyll discount safari so amazon wont get the prize advantage in this market.

And well today most professors hand out classnotes and compendiums in electronic form(with the Computer Science professors as the nootorius exeption).

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