Comment on Good Experience, "Customer experience review: Amazon Kindle"
The Kindle sounds great, but not so great that I want another device. I'd like to buy books for my iPhone. I know it's not perfect for reading, but it's good enough. I read content with it fine, especially from Google Reader, which strips away formatting nicely, even when I go to site from the Google Reader snippit.
Why can't I do this? DRM. Digital Rights Management. If it wasn't for DRM, then Amazon would be selling text that could be downloaded and read on any device.
But because publishers don't trust their customers, Amazon has to invent a book safe called the Kindle.
Imagine the money publishers would make if all of the books on Amazon were available as PDF's or, better, TXT.
All the publishers have to do is ask their friends in the music industry, because Amazon currently sells DRM-Free MP3 downloads from most of the major labels.
posted by Joe at
2:41 PM
2 Comments:
try the Sony reader -- or the Clie, which is also excellent for reading, or the Dell Axim, which i personally love. I review e-book devices for Teleread (we just won Blogging Heroes in the book published by Wiley, NY), so we're cruisin' - but really, check those out, or when we get together, i'll bring the Clie or the Dell...Both are excellent...The Dell is better, but publishers are now using the Sony Reader, which I think is limited... Go for the Dell. The Kindle is too big, clunky, and just so "not not"....
I appreciate the comment, but I'd rather not buy another device, much less carry it around. I have an iPhone, and it would be nice is the publishers trusted me with TXT for my iPhone, the way most of the record companies now trust me with MP3.
These book readers are an industry created around not trusting your customers.
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