[Alexander Turcic]

griffonwing,

1) I'd hate to see Robertb go.

Good. And so would we. As mentioned several times before.

2) I'd love to see a specific Astak forum.

Good. I said that I would personally favor this choice, too, given enough demand. So we agree again. Wonderful.

3) Robertb is a salesman. It's in his blood.

Again we agree! Isn't that fantastic? Now, before you continue, please take a moment and consider what MobileRead is about. We are not - let me repeat: not - a sales platform! We are a community where likeminded people join to share their experiences (good and bad) about e-book reading. Anybody is invited to join, including a salesman, whatever company he might represent. What we do ask for is very little: it's common sense. I repeat: MobileRead was not made for companies to pitch their sales. Robert is free to represent his company. He can answer questions. He can point out differences. But if it turns into subjective, untruthful, purely sales-motivated speeches, then the point is reached where common sense is no longer applicable.

4) News is News, no matter what. Alex, you stated that you totally agree. Well, the Pocket Pro is now available for pre-order and will ship in less than 2 weeks.

Before it was argued that we don't report about Astak. As it turns out, this isn't true. It was argued that we haven't talked about the Pocket Pro. Again, this isn't true. Then it was argued that the "price cut" had to be reported. Again, whatever price cut there might have been, we reported the price that is still valid today. Now you argue that we should have reported about the pre-order. Do you see the pattern here? No matter what, there will always be something more you personally think we should have reported. I said it before - but I say it again, just for you - there are lots of news in the world of e-books that slip our frontpage every day. We do NOT have a team dedicated to frontpage articles. If you feel so strongly about the frontpage, I invite you to become a writer for us, but only if you can maintain an objective and comprehensive view of the overall e-book industry.

The MR Week in Review is even a rehash of the same stuff. Nothing new there at all.

The MR Week of Review is exactly what you said - a rehash. Nothing more nothing less, because that's the point of a review. In case you wonder, it is automatically assembled by collecting all the frontpage news that appeared within one week.

It's disheartening to know that that last thing you can find where you promoted anything Astak on the front page was from 2 and a half months ago. Also, the blurb was very short.

Now you are complaining about the length of the news? Do you have any respect at all for those who are spending their free time to support this community?

When all other front page posts are in-depth, it like MR didn't care when posting this.

Now you are insinuating that we don't care about news that we post on our frontpage, the frontpage, which you said yourself, has so much weight. This is getting ridiculous and I hope you are seeing that, too.

So forgive the length of this post.

You are forgiven.