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07-13-2008, 11:43 AM | #20 | |
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I have conversations with electronic devices on a too regular basis, along the lines of "Computer, I have a screwdriver, and I know how to use it!" (And I was up till oh dark hundred this morning dealing with a PC that decided to have problems with it's boot drive. Five physical drives in the box, and of course it has to develop bad blocks on the boot drive, in the Windows "system" registry hive... Back up now, but a time consuming PITA to fix.) ______ Dennis |
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07-13-2008, 11:50 AM | #21 | ||
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07-13-2008, 11:54 AM | #22 |
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Wow. And the iPhone ebook system didn't even look very user-friendly.
After the Kindle media hype, now this... I think a bunch of publishers are going to be re-visiting their strategies. (I just hope what they come out with will work for those of us using other kinds of dedicated readers!) |
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07-13-2008, 12:14 PM | #24 |
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Bandwidth limitations nowadays are ridiculous. With all these websites streaming videos, buying bandwidth for e-books is almost free.
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07-13-2008, 12:20 PM | #25 | |
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07-13-2008, 12:26 PM | #26 | |
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If all these people just downloaded 1 book to try out the reader or a couple of books they were actually going to read on the device there probably would not be this problem. Just like a bank doesn't have enough cash on hand for every depositor to withdraw all their money in cash eReader's servers aren't designed to have enough capacity for every customer or even a portion of their customers to download all their books at one time. BOb |
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07-13-2008, 12:27 PM | #27 |
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I suspect many of the people buying ebooks for their iPhones were not people who already had ebooks on other devices. Maybe not all, but probably most.
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07-13-2008, 12:45 PM | #28 |
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I would flee in the opposite direction. I assume that anyone wandering around in public with a cell phone plugged into their ear is either devoid of any imagination or brain dead or soon to be brain dead.
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07-13-2008, 12:59 PM | #29 |
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As much as I hate the whole "IPhone" idea, I"m loving that there were so many bookreaders out there......it can only mean a wider selection of books for us Kindle users as publishers realize that yes, Virginia, there really IS a need for e-book formats! And maybe it will change the minds of those authors who refuse to allow their books to be formatted.
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