Kindle….er what?
And to mention something about my beloved technology, I just found an old article about Kindle and how it might start a eBook revolution (thus helping other products to come to the market).
You can read it here.
But beware. It has been a few months and Kindle seems already like a big flop for Amazon. Have you heard anything about it since then? Nah, I thought so.
They even purchased Audible, so maybe the eBook concept was dead before it even took off. Maybe it was good they wasted their own dough on its development rather than me 
Flop? It’s been on backorder since 5 minutes after it was announced.
Jim Treacher
5 Feb 08 at 12:42 pm
Alright, alright, maybe flop is a too strong word. But then again. If I announce a product, allow people to order it and do not deliver it for another half a year, then even if one single person pre-orders it I could say: “wooohooo, look at the demand, it has been backordered since it was announced.”
No, I am not a big fan of Kindle. It is ugly, expensive in the long run and the DRM scheme undermines basic book reading “workflow”. Kindle will flop. I still think there is a future for eBooks, but Kindle is not it.
Would my mom use it? Would a geek like me use it (for more then a day)? Answer to both is no. So what is the target audience, the demography of kindle? Starbucks crowd? They already have a notebook and with sub-notebooks and tablets becoming finally usable the potential Kindle market is drying up fast.
But let’s wait and see the sales figures couple of months from now after the early adopters craze weakens and hands-on reviews flood the net…
ezekiel2517
5 Feb 08 at 2:50 pm
btw Jim, do you have one?
ezekiel2517
5 Feb 08 at 2:51 pm