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Format: Kindle Book Label: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com) Manufacturer: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com) Publication Date: November 24, 2007 Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com) Studio: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com) Editorial Review: Product Description: This article is excerpted by Stephen Windwalker's book, The Amazing Amazon Kindle (Harvard Perspectives Press, December 2007). Windwalker is author of Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites and creator of the Big Man Getting Smaller blog at http://bigmangettingsmaller.blogspot.com. Approximately 1700 words. PLEASE NOTE: THIS CONTENT IS ALSO INCLUDED, along with much, much more IN How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Other Cool Tricks: Read and Answer Email Anywhere, Anytime on the Amazing Amazon Kindle - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0011XW1E8/ebest Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Let the Market DecideKindle is an experiment and those who want to participate in it pay a substantial upfront charge. Anyone who thinks it's too expensive, too constricting or too risky can wait on the sidelines and see. What bothers me is that so many people are evaluating this product using either the paper book, or their own wish list of features as a standard. I personally prefer to read books on my Kindle rather than on a computer or on paper. I have accumulated literally a ton of books in my lifetime ... Read More Rating:  - Unclear PrioritiesIf the author feels as passionately as his title implies, then he wouldn't charge people any more than a penny to hear his heartfelt opinion, making it clear that his priority is to help spread the word, rather than making a buck. What Amazon should do is this: Each item you purchase from the Kindle store should earn you a certain amount of credit to cover the cost of your wireless access. If there are possibly some Kindle users out there who don't buy anything whatsoever from the Kindle ... Read More Rating:  - ingenious devicei held off buying a kindle because it seemed like a lot of money to read a book {how wrong i was}. after reading the initial revues i found that it was a lot more than that. ive had it now for a couple of months and i dont know how i ever did without it. there are a couple of changes i would like to see. larger area to hold it without changing the page, a much better book cover with stlyus and key stroke chart. i have problems with the internet but not downloading which is amazing, for some reason it takes ... Read More Rating: - Nice jobHelpful article, that gets down into the real economics of the wireless feature. I definitely agree that Amazon should not start charging heavily for this tool. Rating: - A great insight into the marketing value of the Amazon Kindle's Basic Web browser and 3G serviceEvery Kindle owner should read this article and join us in calling on Amazon to keep the basic web browser and the remarkable wireless broadband service that supports, and to keep it free or cheap. There has been plenty of buzz (as well as a few troublesome lines in the terms and conditions) suggesting that these features won't be free forever. Windwalker makes a well-reasoned case that it should suit Amazon's business model and customer-experience goals to maintain the service at no more than a nominal charge, ... Read More |
