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Book vs. Kindle – some funny videos

Phyl — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 22:58:29 +0000

I’m not really slagging the Kindle today (I’m being passive), but the people at Green Apple Books have put up some amusing videos both at their blog, The Green Apple Core, and on their YouTube channel. They’re setting the Kindle battling with books, and so far they’re on round 6.

You’ll have to watch the [...]

Reason #5,861 why I will never get a Kindle, plus will always prefer paper books over ebooks

Phyl — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 22:30:39 +0000

AmazonFail

Yegods. Every day now, Amazon is up to something nasty again. It’s hard to keep up. And I’d really rather write about good stuff.

From Pogue’s Posts in the New York Times, “Some E-Books Are More Equal Than Others:”

This morning, hundreds of Amazon Kindle owners awoke to discover that books by a [...]

Oh, for gods’ sake, Amazon…!

Phyl — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 23:31:21 +0000

You know, I don’t even go looking for this stuff about Amazon, but it just seems to be busting out all over, lately. I keep thinking, as I watch this sort of thing happening more and more, “Who do they think they are — General Motors??” (Meaning, of course, the old General Motors before [...]

Kindle: We’ll be a “target market” from womb to tomb

Phyl — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:01:47 +0000

To say this is an abomination of abominations is making it sound like a church picnic. This marketing-targetting-attacking-people-with-advertising is getting so out of hand, I doubt it will be long before they're demanding the right to put advertisements on the insides of our eyelids so we can't even escape their money-grubbing pocket-robbing shouting that way. ... [...]

This Kindle news makes me sad and uneasy

Phyl — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 22:57:18 +0000

I suddenly realize why, even though I enjoyed the various incarnations of Star Trek, I never really wanted to live in their world even though I would definitely love space travel and exploring new worlds and so on. But those people had no things. ... [...]

Ebooks, Amazon, and Sherman Alexie

Phyl — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:41:15 +0000

Such a to-do about ebooks lately!

First, the less controversial stuff. As Publisher’s Weekly reports, the RAND Corporation has lowered the price of its ebooks to $9.95 (I presume US dollars) across the board. It sounds like this is a response to complaints that have been heard more and more loudly, recently, that the general [...]

Printed, paper books, how do I love thee? (or, why I don’t think I’ll get a Kindle)

Phyl — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 21:53:31 +0000

The Consumerist had a piece yesterday about a guy who got his Kindle cancelled: Amazon Can Ban You From Your Kindle Account Whenever It Likes.

Amazon recently banned a customer for making what they considered too many returns, and when they did this they also disabled his Kindle account, though the returns were never related [...]