Follow-up: so far, the iPhone is a better e-book.
Don’t own one, but Amazon’s Kindle certainly seems like a nifty machine (especially when you do things like this with it). But the price tag on the new Kindle aimed at the education market has earned the product plenty of pans in the early going.
Given my earlier views on the subject of dedicated e-book readers versus multipurpose gadgets like the iPhone (see links at the bottom of this post), you won’t be surprised that this item from ZDNet’s Between the Lines blog caught my eye:
The concept of the Kindle is great, but it’s highly limited in certain ways (connectivity, format of books, etc.), it’s expensive, and it doesn’t do nearly as much — or have nearly the storage — of competing products like the iPhone and iTouch.
Will people read books on a handheld electronic device? That question has already been answered with a resounding Yes, and I can’t see that trend doing anything but grow in years to come. But I doubt the Kindle — at least as currently configured and priced — is the platform where very many e-books will be read.
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