On what grounds? As has been mentioned a couple times (), the success of the iPod hinged on the fact that people already had huge digital music collections and no convenient way to play them... the Kindle is trying to start a market that doesn't really exist yet... and if you already have a collection of digital books they probably aren't supported by Kindle anyway due to it's DRM scheme and proprietary file format.
The other issue is that a book purchased in Kindle format can't be used anywhere else... if you're Kindle dies or Amazon stops supporting it you're out of luck. That library is useless. At least with the iPod I can use plain MP3s or buy AACs and burn them to a non-DRM CD for later use. To me that's the biggest difference between the iPod and Kindle.. and the reason why the Kindle is not going to take off like the iPod did. On Nov 21, 2007 5:53 PM, Prasad Perera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's going to be famous like the iPOD. > > For music it's iPOD, for books it's (going to be) Kindle. > > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 > > 10:38:36 +0000> Subject: Re: [IxDA Discuss] Kindle> > Maybe they only had > > 10 of them?> > http://tinyurl.com/ypb8ea -- Matt Nish-Lapidus email/gtalk: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ++ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/mattnl Home: http://www.nishlapidus.com ________________________________________________________________ *Come to IxDA Interaction08 | Savannah* February 8-10, 2008 in Savannah, GA, USA Register today: http://interaction08.ixda.org/ ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
