The real deciding factor may be that listening to music is, and always has been much cooler than reading books. That is not likely to change.
The promise in the Kindle (or any similar portable display) is finding some method of delivering books without the delay of the publishing and print process. That is takes months to get a book printed and distributed renders it much less instant and as a result less relevant for all but the most in-depth studies and stories. Even magazines pale in timeliness to online sources such as blogs and even forums. I am not sure that knowledge and science are progressing at a faster rate than ten years prior, but information dissemination surely has. Last spring's MBA class on internet marketing is now sooo out of date. Mark On Nov 22, 2007, at 1:40 AM, pauric wrote: > Matthew:"(drm versus open library) 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." > > The iPod isnt as 'open' as you might think. You cant really take > your iTunes library and plonk it on another player, you can only burn > a track/album to cd 5 times. Its not terrible but its certainly DRM. ________________________________________________________________ *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
