All your ebooks are belong to us
Mon 19 Nov 2007, 10:29 pm
Please forgive me if I’m not the first to make this joke. (Original image, source of the text.) But c’mon. $400 bucks with craptastic terms of service? No thanks.
Edited to add: dive into mark’s The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) is a great take on this thing (and DRM in general).
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I hear you. I don’t understand who they think they are tricking with this. Who is going to want to buy something that gives them practically no options what so ever?
Give me a real book any day. I will gladly pay much, much more.
Comment by Benjamin — November 20, 2007 @ 5:48 am
How dare you have an opinion on this device without shelling out $400 and learning about its awesome capabilities firsthand!
Whereas I who’ve never seen it either can assure you that it’ll change the way we think of reading.
Comment by Leo Klein — November 23, 2007 @ 2:43 am
Ah, yes. The ebook reader of the mind problem.
I know you are being ironic, Leo. Seriously, though I believe those critics who say you need to see it firsthand are correct if you want to write about the device itself–the interface, the e-ink, the overall reading experience, etc. But not just to talk about the issues surrounding ebooks in general or the specific problems with buying and using books for this particular device.
Comment by Steve Lawson — November 23, 2007 @ 8:26 am
You’ve seen through my irony! As adults we judge future possibilities by past experiences all the time.
The greatest response to all this was by Andrew Mutch on WEB4LIB:
“You also have to remember that over their history, e-book promoters and sellers have overhyped and underdelivered on their products in a way that is hard to match in the technology world. Every one of them has been a commercial failure. So any new product coming forward promising to replace the book should be greeted with skepticism. It’s unfortunate that Amazon hasn’t managed to learn from the fate of past e-book readers…”
Comment by Leo Klein — November 23, 2007 @ 1:35 pm
That’s an awesome cover mod, made me laugh.
Comment by Richard Akerman — November 27, 2007 @ 12:48 pm
Thanks, Richard. Glad to know I cracked up someone besides myself. I was rather too proud of it, especially when I realized that the character in Zero Wing also lacks a right eye, having machinery there instead. It’s almost like Bezos and Newsweek planned it. OK, maybe not. But a nice coincidence.
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