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Kindle and the future of reading : The New Yorker / Nicholson Baker
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Here’s what you buy when you buy a Kindle book. You buy the right to display a grouping of words in front of your eyes for your private use with the aid of an electronic display device approved by Amazon.
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Kindle books aren’t transferrable. You can’t give them away or lend them or sell them. You can’t print them. They are closed clumps of digital code that only one purchaser can own. A copy of a Kindle book dies with its possessor.
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The Passion of Steve Jobs - Bits - Technology - New York Times Blog
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Mr. Jobs can be like that when he assesses the competition.
Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely because Americans have stopped reading.
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) [dive into mark]
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The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts)
Fantasy Of The Day: The Kindle Will Save Papers - Silicon Alley Insider
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We are happy/disappointed to report that the paid NYT version is worse than the free one: The layout is just as clumsy as the web browser version, if not more so. The real problem: Since the paid version is automatically beamed to your reader once a day, you are guaranteed to be reading yesterday's... non-news. If you'd like to see what's actually happening in the world, the Kindle insists that you leave your paid subscription -- and check out the free version at nyt.com.
teXtes » Blog Archive » Kindle : les livres électroniques ne se cachent plus
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Francis Pisani ( et Aldus, dans un commentaire de la première version de ce billet auquel manquait cette première définition) nous
le rappellentl’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 E-Book reader reviews - CNET Reviews
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The bottom line:
With its free built-in wireless capabilities and PC-free operation, Amazon's Kindle holds a distinct advantage over Sony's Reader and is a promising evolution of the electronic book--but Amazon needs to bring down the pricing for both the device and the content to attract a wider audience.
Amazon Kindle eBook Review (Verdict: Confusing, Expensive...but Promising) - Boing Boing Gadgets
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It's just too damn expensive.
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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.
Transnets » Blog Archive » Mon Kindle est arrivé
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La meilleure surprise est le fait que je peux lire les documents (y compris les PDF… et je peux les annoter) que je me suis envoyé par courriel.
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Et maintenant – n’oubliez pas que quand il est 7h du matin en France il est 10h du soir en Californie – je vais l’essayer au lit. La seule preuve qui compte puisque je lis tous les soirs avant de m’endormir…
Conceptual Trends and Current Topics
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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."
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the book's shift from noun to verb
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Amazon.com: Kindle: Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device: Kindle Store
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"This is the future of book reading. It will be everywhere." Michael Lewis, author of Moneyball and Liar's Poker.
FredCavazza.net » E-book + iPod Touch = Amazon Kindle
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Et c’est bien là où ce produit est révolutionnaire : il élimine deux sources de problèmes (l’ordinateur et les opérateurs de téléphonie). Comprenez par là que dès lors où vous devez relier un terminal à votre ordinateur, tout se complique : problème de synchronisation, logiciels à installer et paramétrer, conflits… De même, dès que vous commencez à vouloir exploiter le réseau de téléphonie mobile, les opérateurs vous tombent dessus avec leurs histoires d’abonnements, de paiement à la minute…
Amazon a donc opté pour une expérience radicalement différente en rendant transparente la connexion de son terminal à l’internet. Tout ce fait par l’intermédiaire de Wispernet, la technologie d’Amazon qui repose sur le réseau haut-débit de Sprint. Vous noterez au passage qu’Amazon devient donc un MVNO verticalisé.
Cette approche transparente de l’utilisation du réseau de téléphonie mobile (pas de forfait, tout est inclus dans le prix du livre) est une petite révolution.
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The Luddite dream of Jeff Bezos
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It's this decidedly old-fashioned experience - this pre-Web experience - that Bezos says he sought to replicate with Kindle, Amazon's pricey new ebook. No reading-by-committee. No the-crowd-is-the-author rigmarole. No comments from the always-on peanut gallery. No text-as-runny-liquid-fabric. No social network. Just one reader alone with one book by one author:
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Adam Smith, head of Google Book Search, looks forward to "getting rid of the idea that a book is a [closed] container."
Not quite a quiet read in a comfy chair. Not quite an immersion into an author's world. More like a buffoonish trampling of it.
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Transnets » Blog Archive » Livre 2.0: débat et passions
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“J’adore me poser sur un fauteuil confortable pour une longue lecture. A mesure que je me relaxe sur le fauteuil je me détends également dans les mots, les histoires et les idées de l’auteur. Le livre physique est un objet si élégant qu’il s’estompe à l’arrière-plan. Le papier, la colle, l’encre et les coutures qui font le livres disparaissent et ce qui reste est l’univers de l’auteur.”
Today on Boing Boing Gadgets - Boing Boing
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No doubt about it: today the Amazon Kindle got the spotlight. Today on Boing Boing Gadgets, I liveblogged the launch, gave my first impressions, and then gave it a perfunctory (but accurate, I hope) review.
Amazon Kindle: meet Amazon's e-book reader - Engadget
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Oh, come now, like you thought the world's largest book retailer (online) -- which just started peddling digital video under the Unbox brand -- wasn't going to go head to head with Sony's Reader on an e-book device and service?
Techmeme: The Future of Reading — Amazon's Jeff Bezos already built a better bookstore. (Steven Levy/Newsweek.com)
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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
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(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.
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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
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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…
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