Comments on: The word Kindle makes me think of burning books http://ryansholin.com/2007/11/18/the-word-kindle-makes-me-think-of-burning-books/ Ryan Sholin on the future of newspapers, online news and journalism education. Thu, 11 Mar 2010 02:29:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Shaminder Dulai http://ryansholin.com/2007/11/18/the-word-kindle-makes-me-think-of-burning-books/comment-page-1/#comment-9326 Shaminder Dulai Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:00:08 +0000 http://www.ryansholin.com/2007/11/18/the-word-kindle-makes-me-think-of-burning-books/#comment-9326 Iono man, the Kindle is still too clunky and massive. Plus RCA and Sony have already introduced, tried and then abandoned the idea of eBooks. Sure it's got the backing of the Amazon brand behind it, but do you really think that's going to change people's attitudes? Plus you can't compare it to DVD players, that's a massive mainstream consumer product, this is not. And on the point of hack-ability, if you can hack your PSP and iPhone, why not just load on the books to those devices? Maybe a PDF reader or something, or even straight jpegs. Personally I think it'd make a lot more sense for schools to adopt this product as as an option for textbooks, that will at least get us some quick feedback on if people will embrace it or not. I do think that ePaper is coming, but this isn't it. This is like what the Newton was to the Palm. Iono man, the Kindle is still too clunky and massive.

Plus RCA and Sony have already introduced, tried and then abandoned the idea of eBooks.

Sure it’s got the backing of the Amazon brand behind it, but do you really think that’s going to change people’s attitudes?

Plus you can’t compare it to DVD players, that’s a massive mainstream consumer product, this is not.

And on the point of hack-ability, if you can hack your PSP and iPhone, why not just load on the books to those devices? Maybe a PDF reader or something, or even straight jpegs.

Personally I think it’d make a lot more sense for schools to adopt this product as as an option for textbooks, that will at least get us some quick feedback on if people will embrace it or not.

I do think that ePaper is coming, but this isn’t it. This is like what the Newton was to the Palm.

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