I am probably an anomaly in the digital age. I do not own any Apple products (except the free version of QuickTime that has been forced on me) and have no plans to acquire any Apple products. I am not particularly impressed by the iPad or the iPod, and see the iPhone as just a money sinkhole. I used to think how great it would be to be able to build a computer to my own specifications and use the MacOS, but that never occurred because Apple doesn’t permit it. Of course, that was also in the days when I believed...

Jeff Bezos was forthcoming about some aspects of the Kindle’s near future at Amazon’s annual shareholder meeting on Tuesday. He said that the Kindle will continue to be focused on reading, not become a multipurpose device like the iPad. He also said that a color kindle is a long way off—color e-ink is not ready for prime-time, and the color LCD reading experience is not as good as e-ink. (Though all the people buying books on the iPad already seem to have few problems with it.) It’s odd Bezos should be so dismissive of LCD given that...

Neelan Choksi’s exit from Amazon is bad news for the millions of Stanza fans, given his importance in the evolution of this stellar program for the iPhone and iPod Touch. The Stanza issues raised here go far beyond the AWOL iPad-related additions and full use of the forthcoming iPhone OS. I remain baffled why Amazon must have just one reading app---a novice-targeted one---for use on nonKindles. Swallowed by Amazon just last year for more than a few dollars, Stanza would be a logical gap-filler and if nothing else deserves to be displayed sharply at...

This is an update to the earlier Amazon plays hardball to keep lower pricing option which gives a lot of details with sourcing of statements. Today, FAIR (a media-watch organization established in 1986) comments on the New Yorker article by Ken Auletta titled "Publish or Perish: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and Save the book business?" That title will give a clue to the focus of the New Yorker Magazine's article (or maybe The New Yorker itself, which is sharing the financial plight of other publishing organizations). "Can they... CAN they? "topple the Kindle" (Keep Hope Alive?) followed by, can they...

Editor's Note: This is part 8 of 8 of John's Kindle Shakedown series, and you can also find it on his blog here. Thanks, much, John for allowing TeleRead to reprint your series and I, for one, hope to hear more from you in the future. PB An invitation for feedback is included with the Kindle. As a conclusion to my Kindle shakedown series, I am sending this open letter to Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com. The letter is also being emailed to kindle-feedback@amazon.com and jeffb@amazon.com. Dear Jeff Bezos, Thank you for making the Amazon Kindle available in Canada. I...