Re: Why the Kindle and other e-book readers are doomed

On Jun 13, 10:16 pm, Kurt Busiek <k...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

No idea whether e-readers will ever take off like the iPod -- I knid of
doubt it -- but I do hope they become more common than they are now,
because I like 'em a lot.

e-readers will not ever have the populary of the MP3 players. It's
really a simple matter of differing customer bases. There are many
more people who listen to music than there are people who actually
read books.

On Jun 22, 6:44 am, Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy
<tausti...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Peter Knutsen <pe...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote innews:4a3efe1a$0$48234$14726298@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:

Gutless Umbrella Carrying Sissy wrote:
[...]
You are not buying books for the Kindle. You are renting them.
[...]

If they're sufficiently cheap, I have no problem with renting
novels and short stories!

(I kinda suspect they *won't* be, though.)

The book the guy had problems with wasn't fiction, it was a reference
book. You know, the kind you buy to refer to on an ongoing basis.

You mean, of course, the guy who wrote,

"You are able to redownload your books an unlimited number of times to
any specific device.

Any one time the books can be on a finite number of devices. In most
cases that means you can have the same book on six different devices.

Unfortunately the publishers decide how many licenses, that is
devices, a book can be on at any one time. While most of the time that
will be five or six different devices there will be times when it’s
only one device.

At the present time there is no way to know how many devices can be
licensed prior to buying the book.

According to the customer rep, there is a project to try to get that
information available to the customer but it’s not yet available.

Finally, when you have reached a limit of six devices and you swap one
older device for a new one, it does not automatically reset the number
of licenses so you can add the new one. Amazon can release all of the
licenses which will remove any given book from all of the devices and
then allow you to re-download it that same number of times.

In other words, if his information was accurate, and the runaround I
got this afternoon does make me continue to wonder, once you purchase
a book you will have access to it going forward….

You just may have some hoops to go through along the way."

--
Mike
_I Eat Vegetarians: Cows are vegetarians, aren't they?_ ISBN:
978-0-615-22203-5 (kindle), 978-0-9841042-1-5 (.pdf) 978-0-9841042-0-8
(mobi)


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