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niceboy · 10-12-2010, 10:49 AM

It seems that Kindle has very rudimentary file handling while it has invested in some weird social media functionality. I just can't imagine users want to tweet excerpts or share highlights and such more than they want library sub-directories etc.

I wonder what you think about this? Do you think it is a result of classic suits treading on coders? Design by Marketing?

Also, what drives Amazon to resist native ePub reading... is it about DRM or about store competition? Epub can have DRM? Locking out Overdrive seems to be an odd business strategy since the heavy book buyers seem to also be the heavy library users.

10-12-2010, 10:49 AM	#1
niceboy Enthusiast Posts: 48 Karma: 14 Join Date: Oct 2010 Device: Kindle	Thoughts on K3 software? It seems that Kindle has very rudimentary file handling while it has invested in some weird social media functionality. I just can't imagine users want to tweet excerpts or share highlights and such more than they want library sub-directories etc. I wonder what you think about this? Do you think it is a result of classic suits treading on coders? Design by Marketing? Also, what drives Amazon to resist native ePub reading... is it about DRM or about store competition? Epub can have DRM? Locking out Overdrive seems to be an odd business strategy since the heavy book buyers seem to also be the heavy library users.