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I am happy with my ipad too but I can't read too long on it, that's why I was expecting that amazon would have by now gotten their act together and released a decent eink reader. I was surprised and dismayed to see that they haven't. And I wasn't asking for much, just more storage and better pdf viewing.
Instead they are becoming the microsoft of the reader world, by stifling competition (see irex, see plastic logic) while keeping the standards very low and putting the handbrake on the growth of the technology to the extent that it doesn't actually meet some basic current user needs. What's even more annoying than their short sighted interests is that they could have been dominating the market and making more money for themselves had they actually released a capable device: decent storage, interfacing with the cloud, capable pdf viewing and of course drastically cheaper ebooks for every print book sold to a customer. I would then buy my content from them, have my content in their devices and I'd be one happy camper.
Instead they are crippling the capabilities of their kindles, and thus compromising my needs to an unacceptable degree, and they are also trying to stiff me off my money by having me pay twice for an e and p copy of a book. They have studied the moronic microsoft model of doing business really well it seems. And it makes me all the more appreciate how revolutionary and visionary apple were in handling the music business and helping it take off in a digital world.
Amazon could have been the apple to books with capable devices and cheap ebooks with print copies (and full price ebooks without).
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