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Originally Posted by jasonkchapman
I'd trust his review more if he didn't have a financial interest in the Kindle's success over its competitors. 18 months ago, the man was insultingly anti-e-book. That was before O'reilly chose to distribute through Amazon's Kindle store.
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1. 18 months ago the ebook market was even worse than it is now. I mean, yeah, you can buy readers for only the same price as a small netbook, and yeah, you can buy ebooks - but just look at all the issues with format, firmware, availability, pricing. Pogue wasn't the only one who slammed ebooks 18 months ago.
2. And, on your logic, any successful author will push Kindle 'cos Amazon's the 400lb gorilla in book sales (ebooks and treebooks).
B&N have done what electronics/software/computer companies have been doing to us for years: they've released a product before it was ready and left us to do the final testing for them.