Kindle talk

Posted: March 20th, 2009 | Filed under: Media | 6 Comments »

I know there has been quite a bit of talk on here about the Amazon Kindle 2. Well, I bought my own. And, though I know that I’m late to the party (almost as late as I was to the Snuggie party) I have tried to start a conversation about it at The Future of Newspapers.

6 Comments on “Kindle talk”

  1. 1: Chad said at 7:48 am on March 20th, 2009:

    Looooove my Kindle. I have read more of the paper, more often, since I got my Kindle than I did before…and it isn’t even close.

  2. 2: Oddibe Kerfeld said at 7:52 am on March 20th, 2009:

    Good luck, Joe. Here in Austin our paper is dying a slow death in a highly literate town. They keep cutting the size of the paper, the quality of the articles is increasingly bad, and many of the long time writers and columnists are taking early retirement. The paper also hasn’t been able to find a buyer for months. They are located on prime real estate on the banks of the lake in downtown Austin, so now there is talk that someone might want to buy them just to build a high rise in their place. Even worse, this fall I free-lanced high school football games for them on Friday nights and it took them several months before they finally paid me for all of my games. It took a lot of calls and emails just to get that fixed. Not good.

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  4. 4: Buchholz Surfer said at 2:12 pm on March 20th, 2009:

    I’d like to get a kindle, and when I first heard about it, I looked forward to being able to read newspaper articles on one. But I’m definitely not going to pay $400 for one. I’d pay maybe $40 or $50 for a device like that, because you still need to buy the information you read on it. I realize it’s an expensive device and it’s better than reading online, but to me it’s just not worth it. It couldn’t be THAT much better, to make it worth all the extra money it would cost.

    For this device to succeed, they should probably try to price it at a big loss just to get it into people’s hands and get them to subscribe, like DirecTV does with their equipment. Make the money off the sale of the info, not from the device. Until it drops massively in price, I’m not interested, even though I’d really enjoy having one.

  5. 5: Spud said at 6:36 pm on March 20th, 2009:

    It looks like one of the original hand-held calculators – way too big and too expensive. In a year or two it will work better too, I figure.

  6. 6: Kevin said at 10:24 am on March 21st, 2009:

    i have the kindle app on my iPhone, and it’s great. free, too. and the second book i bought was The Soul of Baseball.

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