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And before you go, well, it must just be one idiot that slipped through, this is signed "By the Monitor's Editorial Board".
There's one egregious and inexcusable error:
"Amazon, founded as a way to sell paper books over the Internet, now sells more books as electronic files"
Just the other day, I was saying that in the past, people talked about ebooks vs. physical books by invoking smell and touch. I said, it requires effort to even find a blogger or commenter producing that any more. Boy, did the Monitor's Editorial Board prove me wrong.
Here are a few blasts from the past:
"But what about long-form reading – novels, biographies, college textbooks? Aren’t they better digested through the tactile experience of paper pages, bound together in a book, easy to drop, easy to share?"
"Print lovers say nothing compares with the delights of cracking open a new paper book, feeling it in one’s hands, riffing through the pages, noting your progress as the right side stack of pages shrinks and the left side grows thicker."
On the whole, it is actually a reasonable article. It's just a few sentences that trip up the unwary reader.
Over here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-adner/kindles-days-are-numbered_b_680616.html
It could have been great coverage, altho this sentence weakened it:
"With a host of low-end tablets soon to arrive on the market from HP, Acer, and others, it is hard to imagine any company (except for Apple) making a serious profit margin on a digital reader." RHI the low end tablets about to show up are truly awful. This would not surprise me. The iPad is cool, and as a travel toy may yet really justify its existence, but it is definitely a solution in search of a problem. Maybe if I buy a keyboard for it?
Ron Adner does observe that Amazon stands to win if content is where the money is made. But he ends on this note: "Now that other companies are entering the digital reader space, it would be a mark of success, not weakness, if Amazon can exit the hardware business entirely."
Some heavy irony, given that other big news about e-readers in the last day or so is that the heavily publicized (and preordered!) Plastic Logic reader, the Que, has finally been shelved.
Here's what the WSJ said:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100811-710025.html
"More than a dozen companies have marketed or were planning to market e-readers, but prices have fallen so quickly that they will have trouble recouping their costs and building brand image."
Overall, better coverage than previous forays into the foolishness.
And before you go, well, it must just be one idiot that slipped through, this is signed "By the Monitor's Editorial Board".
There's one egregious and inexcusable error:
"Amazon, founded as a way to sell paper books over the Internet, now sells more books as electronic files"
Just the other day, I was saying that in the past, people talked about ebooks vs. physical books by invoking smell and touch. I said, it requires effort to even find a blogger or commenter producing that any more. Boy, did the Monitor's Editorial Board prove me wrong.
Here are a few blasts from the past:
"But what about long-form reading – novels, biographies, college textbooks? Aren’t they better digested through the tactile experience of paper pages, bound together in a book, easy to drop, easy to share?"
"Print lovers say nothing compares with the delights of cracking open a new paper book, feeling it in one’s hands, riffing through the pages, noting your progress as the right side stack of pages shrinks and the left side grows thicker."
On the whole, it is actually a reasonable article. It's just a few sentences that trip up the unwary reader.
Over here:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ron-adner/kindles-days-are-numbered_b_680616.html
It could have been great coverage, altho this sentence weakened it:
"With a host of low-end tablets soon to arrive on the market from HP, Acer, and others, it is hard to imagine any company (except for Apple) making a serious profit margin on a digital reader." RHI the low end tablets about to show up are truly awful. This would not surprise me. The iPad is cool, and as a travel toy may yet really justify its existence, but it is definitely a solution in search of a problem. Maybe if I buy a keyboard for it?
Ron Adner does observe that Amazon stands to win if content is where the money is made. But he ends on this note: "Now that other companies are entering the digital reader space, it would be a mark of success, not weakness, if Amazon can exit the hardware business entirely."
Some heavy irony, given that other big news about e-readers in the last day or so is that the heavily publicized (and preordered!) Plastic Logic reader, the Que, has finally been shelved.
Here's what the WSJ said:
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20100811-710025.html
"More than a dozen companies have marketed or were planning to market e-readers, but prices have fallen so quickly that they will have trouble recouping their costs and building brand image."
Overall, better coverage than previous forays into the foolishness.
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Date: 2010-08-14 10:52 pm (UTC)ipad and spectrum
Date: 2010-08-15 01:16 am (UTC)T. was watching the Micky Mouse Clubhouse theme on a youtube video on every screen he could get us to play it on. Well, he still does, actually, but when he wants it on the iPad, he knows to ask for Micky Mouse on the little computer (when he says it, there are a lot fewer consonants). Yesterday I downloaded the Duck Duck Moose version of the Wheels on the Bus, mostly for A. She was completely enamored of it, but at no point did she try to touch it; it was like reading a picture book to a kid, where the picture book does the reading for you, and the adult is there more to make the animated bits happen. I haven't tried to get T. interested in it yet. She is less fascinated by the Duck Duck Moose version of the Itsy Bitsy Spider, however, we have board book versions of both and she vastly prefers Bus over Spider in board book form, so I don't think that's anything to do with Duck Duck Moose.
Duck Duck Moose has a ton of iPhone/Touch apps, but I've only been getting the iPad specific ("HD") versions so far, so I can't comment on the others. I also got some show animal/make animal sound apps, most of which were free.
I'll make a point of blogging any further developments.