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more about #amazonkindle BleekBleek: I think Bezos fails to address the incredible paradigm shift necessary before people move away from paper books. Sure, the zeitgeist can be manipulate... more » blash: There will always be paper books for one simple reason - freedom of expression. Even if they made a Kindle to be superior to a paper book for the purp... more » Killjoy: Hey folks, read for content. "I do" agrees with "Eventually." He says "I don't know how long," and "No technology, not even one as elegant as the bo... more » tmp00: Kindle will replace paper when it costs $25 to buy one and you don't have to turn it off and stow it for the last hour of your plane ride. more » larry_832: Bezos is right! After all, nobody paints anymore. That technology is dead. We have jpeg! Why, I haven't seen brush and canvas work since Matthew Brady... more » Bokusatsu_Tenshi: Well, maybe they will, but not anytime soon, and certainly not because of crap like Kindle as it is today. At least I don't see it happening. Not onl... more » AmishJohn: With a dead-tree book, I can read without worrying about battery life. I can loan the book to friends. I can sell the book. I can donate it to charity... more » nutbastard: books will likely be around for another 500 years or so, because technology advances suffer from frame drag. in 100 years, books might be rather odd i... more » jepzilla: I doubt the kindle and e-readers will kill the physical book any time in the forseeable future. At the same time, I think it's disingenuous to suggest... more » k2001: Book has more than just 500 year run, I believe it is close to 2000 years. more » Gordonium: I feel like there's going to be a karmic kick in the ass for making a statement like that... like, all ebook companies going under in this guy's lifet... more » witeowl: I completely agree. And I don't lament it too much. We already have had at least one college eliminate its library (or bookstore, I can't recall) in f... more » StupidSimple: Yeah, convince my baby daughter that kindle is better than her colorful popup books. more » IndustrialJones: ...says the guy making eBook readers :P more » Prostate of Grace: Back to the real world - we are centuries away from replacing books. As if I'm going to drive around for years with a e-book version of the driver's ... more » Kaiser-Machead: Yeah that's all fine and good, but really, what kind of books? You can't just replace every kind of book out there. I have a small collection of large... more » AndPreciousLittleofThat: Looks like someone's been reading from the Segway PR script. "This product will revolutionize the way eyeballs perceive words!" more » GreyHammer: of course they want to kill the book because you can lend those out and keep them forever. where as in digital form they merly license it to you and c... more » darngooddesign: Sure man, books are dead. Just like vinyl records. more » OCEntertainment: OCEntertainment on the Inevitable Death of Jeff Bezos: Betchya ten bucks he kicks it before the paperback. more » -
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Jeff Bezos on the Inevitable Obsolescence of Books
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos tells Dan Lyons, aka FSJ, just how deep his "missionary zeal" for spreading the gospel of the Kindle runs: One day, it's going to kill books entirely. The full quote: More » -
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Kindle Milestone: Amazon Sold More Kindle Books Than Physical Books On Xmas
Amazon's Kindle hit an important and startling milestone yesterday: On Christmas, the company sold more Kindle books than physical books. More » -
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Kindle App For BlackBerry Is A Stupid Idea
In my hate-post against ereaders last week, I claimed that Amazon's protecting itself with its iPhone Kindle app, as the ereader market won't last as long as people think. More » -
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Kindle Outsells Every Other Product On Amazon (And What That Really Means)
According to a breathless press release, the Kindle ereader is the "#1 bestselling product across all product categories on Amazon." That means it sold more than the iPod Touch. More than the Wii. More than Going Rogue. How? It's easy!
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Kindle Gets Firmware Updated to 2.3
Get excited, Kindle owners! Both the US and global versions of the Kindle as well as the Kindle DX now have fancy new firmware available, bringing a handful of new features and benefits. More » -
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Amazon Preparing Better Kindle Ebook Management System in 2010
Specifics have not been announced, but Amazon noted via their Kindle Facebook page that a more user-friendly, organized ebook management system will arrive as an over-the-air update in the first half of 2010. More » -
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Kindle For PC Beta Now Available to Download
Now you don't need a Kindle eReader to buy and read the 360,000+ books Amazon sells in its annoyingly proprietary Kindle format. The desktop app supports color photos, multi-touch pinch-zooms, and displays notes/highlights marked on Kindles and the iPhone. More » -
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Mac Getting a Kindle App, Just Like Windows
Windows isn't the only operating system getting a Kindle app; Amazon has just announced that they're prepping a Kindle app for Macs as well, allowing you to read your Kindle purchases right on your computer. Taste the excitement! [SA Insider] -
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Every Win 7 Tablet Is a Multitouch Color Kindle (With This App)
Nook better watch it. One of the "surprises" at the Windows 7 keynote: a multitouch Kindle app for Windows 7 from Amazon. Ebook reading with pinch text zooming, and yes, color photos. Looks great. A full-color shot: More » -
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AUO Has The Technology To Make The $99 Ebook Reader We're Waiting For
AUO must have been listening to the people. You know, the ones that said they don't want to pay more than $99 for an ebook reader. Too bad, we have to wait another few years for its technology to hit. More » -
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Kid Who Sued Amazon Wins, Kindle Now Safer Place for Your Books
The kid who sued Amazon for eating his homework just won in court, to the tune of $150,000. More » -
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Kindle Couple's Marriage Will Last Forever, Even After the Battery Dies
Because that's how E-Ink works, get it!? Well, it was either that or a joke about Amazon remote-deleting these folks' legitimately conceived future children. More » -
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This Is How Michael Jordan Would Use a Kindle
Some people use their Kindles to read books. Others get Kindles to spend hours practicing crazy moves with them, like this reader today at the Gizmodo Gallery. Watch him spin the Kindle like a Michael Jordan would spin a basketball. More » -
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I Want the Trapper Kindle to Be a Real Product So Badly
The Kindle has two main problems, according to this Lunchbreath cartoon: it breaks easily and it doesn't let other people see what you're reading. The Trapper Kindle solves these problems with flair. [Flickr via The Daily What] -
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Wireless Ebook Readers: Which One'll Burn Down the Bookstore?
With the Sony Reader Daily Edition, the 3G-enabled ebook reader battle is pitched. At the end of this year, it'll fight Amazon's Kindle 2 and DX and Plastic Logic's eReader to the death. Here's how they all stack up now: More » -
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Why Amazon's Power to Delete Books Is Absolutely Horrifying
Editors from Columbia's Science and Technology Law Review explained to us a year ago the pitfalls of not owning your Kindle books, a fact that Amazon revealed to be more horrifying than we thought. Guess what? It's worse. More » -
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Kindle For Every Schoolkid Proposed, We Strongly Recommend At Least 1 Calculator
The "New" Democratic Leadership Council in Washington has proposed that the government buy a Kindle or other "eTextbook" for each of the 56 million K-12 schoolchildren in America. It's a nice sentiment, but as a plan, it's holey. More » -
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Kindle DRM Surfaces To Deny User the Books He's Bought and Paid For
Amazon needs to work on its Kindle DRM policy, because the following story is ridiculous. More » -
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David Sedaris on the Kindle: 'This Bespells Doom'
What happens when you ask brilliant humor essayist David Sedaris to sign your Kindle? You get a hilarious quote doomed for finger smudging on your expensive gadget. [NY Times]
