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Amazon Kindle?? Amazon Kindling.

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Ok, ok, I know, the title sucks :) Amazon just released their new e-book reader, Kindle, and man is it ugly. I thought it was a joke at first or perhaps an early not-ready-for-primetime prototype, but no, this is the one on the market.

To be fair, I haven’t handled one in person but my first reaction was it reminds me of an old U.S. Robotics modem that someone put on my desk as a joke. I’ve put a collage together of what I think was Amazon’s inspiration board for the Kindle:

Vintage Computer Collage


And as a business proposition it leaves a lot to be desired. Four hundred bucks for the privilege of downloading Amazon’s DRM books for ten dollars a pop. Who’s going to do that except for a billionaire like Bezos? They should be giving them away or at least put ten free books on them and sell them for $50.

Just my opinion.

Filed Under: General, Technology   Posted: 11.20.07