It's here and looking just as busted as it did when
we broke the Amazon
Kindle eBook reader for you last year. $399 (and free 2 day shipping) with access to 88,000 books including 100 of the 112 New York Times best sellers. No WiFi here, Amazon's Whispernet service is FREE and based on Sprint's EVDO: "Amazon pays for Kindle's wireless connectivity so you will never see a monthly wireless bill for shopping the Kindle Store." Whispernet allows Kindle owners to wirelessly shop the Kindle Store, download and receive content -- and it works out the box, no setup required. All new release books cost $9.99 as do books found on the NYT best sellers list. Newspaper subscriptions cost $5.99 to $14.99 per month and Kindle Magazines cost between $1.25 and $3.49 per month -- each is available for a free 2 week trial. Oddly, blogs will cost you $0.99 per month to subscribe. All purchased content is stored as a backup on Amazon's site. Running down the specs again: internal storage for 200 titles (more via SD expansion), battery that lasts for days (2 hour recharge), 10.3 ounces, built-in dictionary and Wikipedia, and plenty more. While the reader itself could be mistaken for a Handspring device from the 90s, the service itself certainly makes for a compelling proposition.
Read -- Kindle Store
Read -- Kindle device
Read -- Video demonstration
Read -- Video drop test (slow motion, thanks Joe)
posted November 19th 2007 9:21AM
Just to clarify, I meant a WM device with an e-ink screen of similar size
The iPhone doesn't do eBooks, or Java, or Flash, or 3rd party software. This is because of the wonderful agreement between Apple and AT&Cingular. This agreement allowed the two to milk the cash cow, to the detriment of over 1 million users.
If they weren't so darn greedy, they would already be selling eBooks and a ton of other crap to existing iPhone users... and making even more money. However, the duo is rather short-sighted and more interested in corporate profits than user experience.
But hey, you get multi-touch!
hello beautiful
This is ridiculus
According to the user's manual on-line, the Kindle plays Audible audiobooks. Does anybody know if these can be directly downloaded like the e-books are?