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Originally Posted by neilmarr
G'day, Blue: Why is wireless connectivity such a big deal when you obviously have a computer? Kindle store restrictions, geographical restrictions on thousands of titles, blogging and browsing restrictions, and prices outside the US make it a non-starter as far as I'm concerned. But, sadly, it will sell hugely at Christmas anyway because of the inevitable media hype. Cheers. Neil
PS: If you want a new Australian novel that's a lot of fun, my own wee pubishing house released *Last Birds* by Andrew Thelander in Queensland a couple of weeks ago. Drop me a line and I'll be happy to send you the ebook version with our compliments. ntmarATbewrite.net (use the @ sign). Blurb, etc at www.bewrite.net. N |
It isn't a big deal for me, as such, but it is a highly popular feature. Amazon has gone for the charge people for it solution. Not so great, unless you are downloading extremely huge book files.
Fancy mobile phones and brand new laptops aren't big deals to me either, but they are to lots of people. I'm perfectly happy with a PDA as far as reading longer stuff goes.
I'm surprised they did Australia at all, so I was wrong.
I'm not surprised there is no web browser, however. Was reading a story just the other day about people racking up 800 or several thousand dollar iPhone bills from using the internet. Amazon not likely to be going to pay those costs!
Geographical restrictions are everywhere now, it seems, so all the same for those publishers that insist. Amazon still has more books that I would be interested in, though, because some of the slower types only sell there.
What it will do perhaps is light a rocket under the useless local publishers and retailers, and point out to those in denial they can't escape.