Comments on: Kindle anti-incendiary

By: jane

jane — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 17:15:37 +0000

And if a book goes out of copyright, Amazon can reach right in and retract it, without your permission or knowledge. Ironically, when this was done recently, it was with Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm. Old media-ish with a shiny new techno-twist.

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Tue, 26 May 2009 09:59:07 +0000

Well, they did take a baby step into the new world today.

http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/05/26/kindle-notes-and-highlights-now-accessible-on-the-web/

Still pretty closed down but getting better.

By: Amy Alkon

Amy Alkon — Sun, 24 May 2009 21:41:30 +0000

I don’t know if you sell books you link to through Amazon on your site (I have a whole store and get kickbacks — have sold over $2K this month in my “Amy’s Mall”), but Amazon has made a huge mistake by making Kindle books the one thing bloggers get no kickback on. If I send Amazon a customer who buys a paper and cardboard book, I get 6.5 or 7 percent of the purchase price. If I send Amazon a customer who buys a Kindle book, I get ZERO. I’ve approached the Kindle team about this and they’ve approached the Associates team (the people in charge of website kickback program) and the Associates aren’t budging. I’ve written to Bezos (last week). I don’t get it. This is supposed to be the future of books, and it requires no shipping, and it’s the one thing they’re cutting bloggers out of? When we send them customers? What do you think is up with this? Greed? Stupidity?

PS Boyfriend thinks Mac will be out with a reader that eats Kindle’s lunch.

By: Rachel

Rachel — Tue, 19 May 2009 13:47:11 +0000

Thought you might be interested in my friend's partial solution to this problem: http://weblog.vedana.net/2009/05/easy-kindle-clippings.html

By: Tom Asacker

Tom Asacker — Tue, 19 May 2009 09:03:38 +0000

Isn’t it strange how the old yet useful often breaks or rips at the precise time that we are ogling the new and shiny?

By: Domen

Domen — Tue, 19 May 2009 07:41:53 +0000

I fear it’s not a lack of imagination or cultural attunement that are keeping Kindle “old”. As is obvious to those who have bought e-books, etc. unrestricted use and sharing of information aren’t too popular with book publishers and distributors. It’s called copyright – as in: you have to make sure that the information doesn’t flow in the WRONG direction. And that is bound to happen with “new media”…