Entries Tagged as 'amazon'
Other People’s Kindle Hands On
Ok, seriously, last Kindle post for awhile. But I started seeing a few people blogging about their actual Kindle experiences - sure only a few hours time but it’s worth investigating what people who have actually felt it (and aren’t journalists) think about it.
This guy got one and found the navigation metaphor to be very [...]
On the reaction to Amazon’s Kindle
Ok, so it’s official, the internets hate the Kindle. I guess it isn’t surprising, but it got me thinking about their arguments and why I, on the other hand, was kind of excited by it.
The most common argument is that we already have laptops and iPhones why the hell do we need yet another [...]
Kindle’s out and ugly, but cool?
UPDATE: Couple things I saw on the Kindle page. First it supports .prc and .mobi files - great news! Presumably you can mail those in but maybe you can also hook them up to your computer (or add them to a an SD card) and get them right on the piece. If that’s true, then [...]
Amazon Kindle, the e-book reader that actually makes it?
So Newsweek (thanks scott) just broke the news on Amazon’s new e-book reader, the Kindle. This project has been slow to the table and there’s been lots of speculation on the topic before now but Bezos wanted to take his time and get it right. I, for one, am really hoping that he’s gotten it [...]
Categories: amazon · books · gear · kindle · the future · the love · wishlist
Amazon EC2 and RedHat Enterprise!
Huh. Just read about Redhat and Amazon teaming up to give you RHEL Cloud Computing (via). Basically, you can now buy RHEL support with preconfigured AMI’s on Amazon EC2 directly from Amazon. And by you and now I mean you if you’re a participant in the private beta and if you aren’t now means, not [...]
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Amazon’s One-click Patent Squashed
Apparently Amazon’s one-click patent has been struck down! I presume this to be true, only because I read it on the internet. I looked around on the uspto.gov site as it says to on that post and found something but nothing that said in bold words this was true. Anyhizzie the optimist in me believes [...]
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Review: Amazon’s MP3 store
UDPATE: Just read this on DF but Amazon has obliged Radiohead and is only selling their albums, not individual songs. Nice! Go Amazon!
Huh, so Amazon just launched their MP3 store. I’ve been curious about how it’d be, Unbox - as awful and exclusionary as it is made me wonder how Amazon’s execution would be for [...]
NBC in full panic mode
So the other shoe dropped, ok, not the first shoe, well, not the second shoe, the third? no… ok, the fourth shoe finally dropped. NBC is scrambling desperately for a coherent digital media strategy and has gone through a bunch of them already - apparently they’d been stewing about giving Apple so much power in [...]
Amazon, free with the DRM
A lot has been made of the Amazon deal with NBC. After leaving Apple and iTunes it seems that Amazon welcomed NBC with a lure of flexible pricing and a more restrictive DRM.
Now there’s been talk about their latest project Kindle. I’m interested to see the e-book platform take off and Amazon seems well [...]
Some thoughts about Amazon’s Flexible Payment System
UPDATE: Ran across the blog post announcing this bad boy. They say all the right things - except for the major issue of the UI pipeline - this service sounds incredibly compelling. I also found Don’s position on this on his SmugMug blog - my views seem pretty close to his, although he’s found a [...]
