Category: Kindle Reaction
The Kindle as a Guilty Pleasure for Print Lovers
The Kindle, like all eReaders, is seen by many as a radical departure from traditional reading. The main reason why you aren’t surrounded by Kindles whenever you step into a…
David Byrne Reviews the Kindle DX
Reviews for the Kindle seem to pop up from some of the most unexpected people. One new response to the Kindle DX comes from David Byrne, the front man of…
Nicholson Baker Reacts to the Kindle
Author Nicholson Baker has written a lengthy response to the Kindle for the New Yorker. I wouldn’t necessarily call it a review, as it’s more a humorous essay about his…
Free Software Foundation is Launching a Kindle Petition
In the wake of the controversy surrounding Amazon’s deletion of George Orwell books the Free Software Foundation is readying a petition against remote deletion and DRM. This news is somewhat…
PC World’s 3 Reasons to Travel With a Kindle
PC World’s James A. Martin has posted an article about the positive experience he’s had flying with a Kindle 2. He gives three main reasons why any traveller could benefit…
Anti-Kindle rebuttal
When the leaked Kindle sales figured came out earlier this week, a lot of the anti-Kindle crowd were silenced. However, a certain Liz Gunnison from Portfolio.com was still very sceptical,…
Are you embarrassed by what you read? Kindle comes to the rescue
Oh my god, why is everyone is looking at me??!!!… are you the type of person who gets paranoid about what people are thinking when you indulge in the latest…
Kindle “Still Too Expensive for Mass Acceptance”
That’s what analyst Steve Weinstein of Portland’s Pacific Crest told the San Francisco Chronicle, adding that Amazon has sold around 40,000 units so far this year and could sell between…
Warren Buffett told CNBC that he’ll “probably” get a Kindle as he “edges” his way into 21st century technology
Today Warren Buffett told CNBC that he’ll “probably” get a Kindle as he “edges” his way into 21st century technology. Warren Buffet said he was impressed with the Kindle after…
Kindle v2.0
Since I assume that Kindle is only the first generation of mobile ebook readers, it got me thinking of what the next generation of Kindle ebook readers might look like.…