Comments on: The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: "Buy an iPod Touch" http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/ by Peter Kafka Mon, 06 Feb 2012 16:52:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: WFN #24 – Kindlegate | Same Three Guys http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-20532 WFN #24 – Kindlegate | Same Three Guys Sun, 21 Feb 2010 17:47:46 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-20532 [...] Kafka writes that “Amazon … is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at [...] [...] Kafka writes that “Amazon … is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at [...]

]]> By: Can You Read a Book on Your BlackBerry? Time to Find Out, Via Amazon’s Kindle | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-20162 Can You Read a Book on Your BlackBerry? Time to Find Out, Via Amazon’s Kindle | Peter Kafka | MediaMemo | AllThingsD Thu, 18 Feb 2010 11:58:15 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-20162 [...] been a big proponent of the notion that single-use devices like the Kindle will end up losing out to all-in gadgets like the iPhone and iPod, because convenience trumps everything else. But Kindle on the BlackBerry, which really isn’t [...] [...] been a big proponent of the notion that single-use devices like the Kindle will end up losing out to all-in gadgets like the iPhone and iPod, because convenience trumps everything else. But Kindle on the BlackBerry, which really isn’t [...]

]]> By: Tony Clark http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8371 Tony Clark Mon, 03 Aug 2009 16:47:06 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-8371 People keep bashing Kindle and while it's not perfect I don't think it deserves all the negative press. Until Kindle e-books mostly floundered. Amazon and other Internet outlets had all but killed their e-book business. Kindle revitalized that and Amazon led the way. The iPhone version is very well done but it does lack many of the Kindles features. I love the fact that I can read the Kindle and easily transition over to the iPhone. The iPhone does well in low light situations but Kindle beats the iPhone hands-down in bright sunlight situations. Much like the first iPods people are missing the point with the Kindle. It's not the hardware, it's the ease and availability of getting books. People keep bashing Kindle and while it’s not perfect I don’t think it deserves all the negative press.

Until Kindle e-books mostly floundered. Amazon and other Internet outlets had all but killed their e-book business. Kindle revitalized that and Amazon led the way.

The iPhone version is very well done but it does lack many of the Kindles features. I love the fact that I can read the Kindle and easily transition over to the iPhone.

The iPhone does well in low light situations but Kindle beats the iPhone hands-down in bright sunlight situations.

Much like the first iPods people are missing the point with the Kindle. It’s not the hardware, it’s the ease and availability of getting books.

]]> By: WFN #24 – Kindlegate http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8316 WFN #24 – Kindlegate Wed, 29 Jul 2009 03:18:37 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-8316 [...] Kafka writes that “Amazon … is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at [...] [...] Kafka writes that “Amazon … is very good at selling things. It isn’t so good, to date anyway, at [...]

]]> By: Kindle review in NY Mag « Sharing the truth one thread at a time http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8308 Kindle review in NY Mag « Sharing the truth one thread at a time Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:44:07 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-8308 [...] Conclusion: you’re better off with the Kindle Reader on an iPod Touch or the iPhone. Via MediaMemo. “True, the name of the product wasn’t so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the [...] [...] Conclusion: you’re better off with the Kindle Reader on an iPod Touch or the iPhone. Via MediaMemo. “True, the name of the product wasn’t so great. Kindle? It was cute and sinister at the [...]

]]> By: Mark Sigal http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8307 Mark Sigal Mon, 27 Jul 2009 22:30:07 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-8307 Personally, I have been pretty happy with the Kindle reader on my iPod touch, but more to the point, after reading the chatter today about how Apple is reportedly working with the record labels to reinvent the album experience for the online world, why wouldn't they do the same with e-books? Think of this pitch this way: Steve Jobs: "Book and Music industry. You are getting commoditized because you have no differentiated platform for extending/re-inventing your product for the online age. We just so happen to have a set of tools that have proven compelling to the tune of 1.5B downloads, field-tested across 65K apps and with a current footprint of 46M devices." Music/Book Industry: "There is no way we can re-create that value proposition, and we already see the writing on the wall with Amazon. If they are successful, they will be telling us how much money we can make or worse, go direct to writers and musicians, and design us out of the equation. How do we get started?" This is the consummate 1+1=3 for a segment that is otherwise facing a 1+1=<2 future. For more fodder on this one, check out: Old Media, New Media and Where the Rubber Meets the Road http://bit.ly/zwTw8 Cheers, Mark Personally, I have been pretty happy with the Kindle reader on my iPod touch, but more to the point, after reading the chatter today about how Apple is reportedly working with the record labels to reinvent the album experience for the online world, why wouldn’t they do the same with e-books?

Think of this pitch this way:

Steve Jobs: “Book and Music industry. You are getting commoditized because you have no differentiated platform for extending/re-inventing your product for the online age. We just so happen to have a set of tools that have proven compelling to the tune of 1.5B downloads, field-tested across 65K apps and with a current footprint of 46M devices.”

Music/Book Industry: “There is no way we can re-create that value proposition, and we already see the writing on the wall with Amazon. If they are successful, they will be telling us how much money we can make or worse, go direct to writers and musicians, and design us out of the equation. How do we get started?”

This is the consummate 1+1=3 for a segment that is otherwise facing a 1+1=<2 future.

For more fodder on this one, check out:

Old Media, New Media and Where the Rubber Meets the Road
http://bit.ly/zwTw8

Cheers,

Mark

]]> By: TechKive » Blog Archive » The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: “Buy an iPod Touch” [MediaMemo] http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8296 TechKive » Blog Archive » The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: “Buy an iPod Touch” [MediaMemo] Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:00:12 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-8296 [...] here: The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: “Buy an iPod Touch” [MediaMemo] Share and [...] [...] here: The New Yorker Reviews the Kindle: “Buy an iPod Touch” [MediaMemo] Share and [...]

]]> By: glen engelmann http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/20090727/the-new-yorker-reviews-the-kindle-buy-an-ipod-touch/comment-page-1/#comment-8294 glen engelmann Mon, 27 Jul 2009 17:31:26 +0000 http://mediamemo.allthingsd.com/?p=9718#comment-8294 My wife is an avid ink-and-paper book reader. She absolutely loves the kindle app on her iPhone. The books are less expensive, take up no (physical) space, she always has it with her, and they are very readable (even in bright sun by the pool or in the dark in bed at night). So, kudos to Amazon for the kindle store. And kudos to Apple for the iPhone. The iPhone can be a book-reader one minute, and a turn-by-turn GPS the next, and a video game the next, and a web-surfer, the next, and an email machine the next, and a movie player the next ,etc. etc. etc. etc. And it does all of those things really well. Quite amazing. I can see why it is so popular. Enjoy your break, Peter! My wife is an avid ink-and-paper book reader. She absolutely loves the kindle app on her iPhone. The books are less expensive, take up no (physical) space, she always has it with her, and they are very readable (even in bright sun by the pool or in the dark in bed at night). So, kudos to Amazon for the kindle store. And kudos to Apple for the iPhone. The iPhone can be a book-reader one minute, and a turn-by-turn GPS the next, and a video game the next, and a web-surfer, the next, and an email machine the next, and a movie player the next ,etc. etc. etc. etc. And it does all of those things really well. Quite amazing. I can see why it is so popular. Enjoy your break, Peter!

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