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Originally Posted by j.p.s
In this case, it is regurgitation of sensationalism.
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I can't quite see sensationalism in such a bloodless and sexless story , but I guess it would be in a book-centric world.
And I do think leebase's point in #14 about Amazon numbers being secret is a good one. Plus, I vaguely remembered, and just found on the web, this twelve-year-old slam from longtime
Washington Post editor Robert Kaiser*:
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The Post does not print other papers' uncheckable "exclusive" stories. And I can tell you that there have been dozens of bad--that is, wrong--ones over recent months. The Telegraph, Daily and Sunday, has not earned our respect for accuracy or careful reporting.
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I have no need to be on the winning team when it comes to print vs. eBook. And I suppose there will be years when the long term trend against paper is temporarily reversed. However, the article misses that paper, as a reading device, can't much improve, while there still is a lot of room for eReader technology improvement -- especially when it comes to price.
When eInk-type readers are sold in
Poundland, Waterstone's outlook may become less sanguine. How long that will take, I don't know.
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Originally Posted by GA Russell
Last month I read an article in the paper, maybe the Wall St. Journal, in which the lady columnist said that for the first time ever, the new Kindle model is not the best Kindle available.
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Because their customer base tends to have smartphones, Amazon no longer needs to include as many Kindle features. For this reason, all the eInk models since the Kindle Keyboard are less useful than those which came before. A general text reading device, and music player, and seamless worldwide no-monthly-free email and news machine, has degenerated into one optimized for books alone. And the price hasn't gone down nearly enough to compensate.
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* I am not putting a link to the next quote because it seems to no longer be available at washingtonpost.com, and the only places on the web I can find this tonight are partisan political sites.