Comment Re:Kindle Fire great (when it works) (Score 1) 418
I'm not looking for a $1 book by any means. $10-20 is reasonable. I think it's unreasonable to expect a $45 charge for an ebook (some exceptions for highly technical or textbooks).
Comment Kindle Fire great (when it works) (Score 1) 418
We use the Kindle Fire primarily for children's books for my child. There are lots of free ones out there, so she's never bored. The problem is that stupid bug where the books are blank after download (sometimes they don't go blank until a few days after install). I've spent hours with support on email and chat trying to figure it out, and it always ends up back with "factory reset" and redownload everything.
WHEN it works, it's great - especially the interactive books. I love it for the tech books - I can search and highlight. I like it for magazines - less waste. I like it for my text books at school.
For 'fun reading', I'm still stuck on plain old dead-tree versions of books.
There's a good use for the tablets for reading. There's a good use for the books, too. Don't be so hasty to disregard the tablets (well, once they work regularly, that is).
Pricing structure needs adaptation, too. There is no reason for the Kindle version to cost the same as the dead tree version.
The Battle Between Google and Facebook 202
A story at Wired delves into the ongoing struggle between Google and Facebook to establish their competing visions for the future of the internet. "For the last decade or so, the Web has been defined by Google's algorithms — rigorous and efficient equations that parse practically every byte of online activity to build a dispassionate atlas of the online world. Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg envisions a more personalized, humanized Web, where our network of friends, colleagues, peers, and family is our primary source of information, just as it is offline. In Zuckerberg's vision, users will query this 'social graph' to find a doctor, the best camera, or someone to hire — rather than tapping the cold mathematics of a Google search. It is a complete rethinking of how we navigate the online world, one that places Facebook right at the center. In other words, right where Google is now." A related article at ReadWriteWeb suggests that while Facebook's member base is enormous, the company hasn't taken advantage of its influence as well as it should have, though the capability for it to do so still exists.
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