http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.flickr.com/photos/legendmedia/3307477599/ ]]>Feb 26th 2009 11:09AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
But their content is so poor that you really don't find much usability if you're not truly into the mass consumption titles (which I can't understand why anyone would buy when they can get it free from their library).

If you like more obscure authors, publishers, subjects either will have major gaps.]]>Feb 26th 2009 1:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 2:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Thanks for taking the time to reply...
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On this site, there is a heated debate among bloggers that engadget favors the iphone alot. It is argued that they favor it so much so that they prefer it over many other things. I try to stay neutral but end up disagreeing with this argument for the most part, but with this one quote i would say that there is some sort of favoratism.

So McNoobbutt, thats thats the issue.]]>Feb 26th 2009 11:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 12:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/

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Exactly my feelings. When I got to this line "shaped like a big iPhone", I lost all interest to the review. As much as I respect Joshua, this comparison undermines my trust to the whole article. Let's compare everything to iPhone, yeah, right.

Just of the curiosity I searched the article for the word "iPhone". I found another line in Joshua's article:

"...Now, going back and forth from a Kindle to, say... an iPhone".
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:)))
LOL


No vavoritism, huh? Maybe it's a marketing strategy - compare everything to iPhone to become a success. Even Jon Stewart did that in interview with Bezos, right?

Anyway, I will finish reading the interview, but those iPhone comparisons... LOL, just LOL.

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Maybe engadget likes iPhones, or maybe they're comparing it to an iPhone because there are 20 million of them in the wild, and commercials on prime time TV every 10 minutes. People know what an iPhone looks like, and nobody freakin knows what a Sony eBook reader looks like.

I have an iPhone. I have a Kindle2. The Kindle 2 does look like an iPhone, especially from the back. It's aluminum with a plastic band across the top. It's as thin as a #2 pencil. It's nice. I've only had it a couple days, but so far, I love it. And I can stop reading eBooks on my iPhone...


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And the second the book is released on paperback it drops down to $3. The ebooks are based off of the price of the cheapest current paper format rather than having a price based on their own costs and profits. Ebooks would be a lot more compelling if their price matched what was delivered (just like I have a hard time paying $10 for a digital album that costs $10 on CD).]]>Feb 26th 2009 12:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
Most of it goes to the author and various other people involved.]]>Feb 26th 2009 2:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 3:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
From what I heard this is the issue with publishers. Some publishers just don't want to reduce the price for ebook in comparison with paper version, but some publishers do. This is why some ebooks on Amazon are much cheaper than paper versions and some are almost the same price.

I heard Amazon has tough times to deal with this Publisher's greed.

Cost of books production is not as insignificant as Plothole said. Remember the article about NY Times saying that it will be cheaper for them to give Kindle for free to each of their subscribers and distribute newspaper electronically, than printing it? Here is a link for you:
http://www.businessinsider.com/2009/1/printing-the-nyt-costs-twice-as-much-as-sending-every-subscriber-a-free-kindle

So paper cost is not a small thing, rather opposite.

From what I understand, the problem is not Amazon, but greedy/paranoid publishers. Otherwise ebooks would really cost much less than paper versions.]]>Feb 26th 2009 5:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Books and newspapers are not the same thing though. There is a different cost breakdown.]]>Feb 26th 2009 11:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
Amazon is in a different position. They're releasing the Kindle to speed the transition of the industry to more paperless reading, which will be likely to both increase consumption of books and dramatically cut down on storage and transportation costs. Amazon makes most of its money selling books; Apple makes most of its money selling hardware/software integrated devices.]]>Feb 28th 2009 1:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/I do read a lot, but my first use for this would be for school. I teach French in college, and I have to carry around at least two books a day that feel like bricks in my bag. My main concern is that these books are not eBooked yet (did I just invent a new verb? Yay).

When text book publishing co. will understand that I don't need to carry around a 300 pages book every day just to teach classes, I will be a happy man!

I have a new riot call: eBook Text Books... eBook Text Books...]]>Feb 26th 2009 11:31AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
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It's really weird. And coupled with the $360 price, it makes it very hard to justify one.]]>Feb 26th 2009 12:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 12:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
I guess if you're loaded, why not have another device, you'll be well prepared for the overpriced content (that you can't loan out or sell) too.

If I had to buy every book I read, even at a discount, it would triple my reading material budget. Most books I buy are loaned out at least once and over half of the ones I read are borrowed.]]>Feb 26th 2009 12:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
But I generally read serveral hardback books a month. I'm caught up on all my series and authors and I generally don't like to wait for the paperbacks, so I end up buying new hardbacks most of the time. I also don't usually sell books so I have to invest in bookcases. As I stated elsewhere in these comments I dropped nearly $400 on a bookcase a couple of years ago. As with anything, it just depends on your personal situation. For me a Kindle is actually worth the price even at the current level.

All that aside, I'd still never read any novels on an iPhone. I'd rather use the actual book long before I'd ever think of using a device like the iPhone. It may be multi-purpose, but that doesn't mean it's well suited for every purpose. In this case it amounts to nothing more than an inferior stop gap.]]>Feb 26th 2009 12:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/
Other then that holding a book at home is a huge pleasure in this digital world. This isn't needed outside of uni's imo. That coming from a gadget freak like me too. ]]>Feb 26th 2009 11:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:48AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 4:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/26/amazon-kindle-2-review/Feb 26th 2009 11:54AM