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22 Oct 09

THE ELECTRONIC BOOK BURNING by Alan Kaufman (Evergreen Review No. 120, October 2009)

  • The book is fast becoming the despised Jew of our culture. Der Jude is now Der Book. Hi-tech propogandists tell us that the book is a tree-murdering, space-devouring, inferior form of technology; that society would simply be better-off altogether if we euthanized it even as we begin to carry around, like good little Aryans, whole libraries in our pockets, downloaded on the Uber-Kindle.
21 Nov 07

teXtes » Blog Archive » Kindle : les livres électroniques ne se cachent plus

  • Francis Pisani ( et Aldus, dans un commentaire de la première version de ce billet auquel manquait cette première définition) nous le rappellent  l’apprennent : Le verbe “to kindle” se traduit par “allumer un feu”, “faire éclore un sentiment” ou “attiser un amour”.
  • La connexion sans fil utilise le système EVDO, donc ni GSM ni Wifi : en Europe, on pourra toujours attendre le Kindle v.2, peut-être…

Amazon Kindle eBook Review (Verdict: Confusing, Expensive...but Promising) - Boing Boing Gadgets

  • It's just too damn expensive.
  • Although I can hold a $400 eBook reader in my hand, it only feels truly valuable because I have a $7 book inside that I want to read. If Amazon can find a way to lower the barrier of entry on either side of the platform—a cheaper Kindle, or free content—it may then be worth wider consideration.

Conceptual Trends and Current Topics

  • The key revolutionary trait in the Kindle, however, is its wireless connection. The frequency of connection is neither local wifi or bluetooth, but cellular -- which means you can be online anywhere you can get a cellular signal (and you are off the net whereever there ain't a signal.) As a result of this connection the book is always on. As Jeff Bezos says, it turns the book into "a service, not a device." 
  • the book's shift from noun to verb
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CC science fiction novel on the iPhone - Boing Boing

  • Josh sez, "I wrote a sci-fi novel called "Roo'd" and released it under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 License. Even cooler, it was chosen for release for the eBook reader for the iPhone - the first modern novel released for the platform, and the second available after Tarzan.
20 Nov 07

Amazon Kindle: meet Amazon's e-book reader - Engadget

Print is Dead: Books in Our Digital Age » About This Site

  • On this site you will find the complete text and audio of the book’s introduction, afterword, and one full chapter from each of the book’s three parts. This amounts to just about one-third of the book’s entire content.

Techmeme: The Future of Reading — Amazon's Jeff Bezos already built a better bookstore. (Steven Levy/Newsweek.com)

  • Amazon's Jeff Bezos already built a better bookstore.  Now he believes he can improve upon one of humankind's most divine creations: the book itself.  —  "Technology," computer pioneer Alan Kay once said, "is anything that was invented after you were born."

The Future of Reading | Print Article | Newsweek.com

  • (The Kindle gets as many as 30 hours of reading on a charge, and recharges in two hours.) And, to soothe the anxieties of print-culture stalwarts, in sleep mode the Kindle displays retro images of ancient texts, early printing presses and beloved authors like Emily Dickinson and Jane Austen.
  • Specifically, it's an extension of the familiar Amazon store (where, of course, Kindles will be sold). Amazon has designed the Kindle to operate totally independent of a computer:
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Transnets » Blog Archive » Livre 2.0: nous y sommes presque

  • Des centaines de gadgets avec capacité de connexion à l’internet et un écran plus grand que celui d’un téléphone portable devraient voir le jour dans les mois qui viennent (voir ce billet ). Si l’on ajoute à cela le fait que le iPod Touch permet une extraodinaire lisibilité et bénéficie d’une connexion WiFi, on peut imaginer qu’iTunes se mette à offrir des ebooks bon marché – Steve Jobs a bien compris l’importance du prix de chaque morceau - et nous aurions le début d’un point de bascule…

Lafeuille: Kindle : ce qui change !

  • Le Kindle en fait, c'est un téléphone mobile conçu pour la lecture.
16 Nov 07

Amazon to Announce the Kindle eBook Reader

  • Here’s the catch, the device is going to cost users $399 (and lacks a backlight!). I can understand charging something for a device of this magnitude, but $399 for the ability to purchase and read books? That, and there’s no word as to whether it comes built with RSS reading capability, so I can keep track of more than the “digital editions of the New York Times and Wall Street Journal.”
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