Further to CAP’s modest and very probably short-lived campaign to put the fun back into publishing (see John Connolly post below), and as an antidote to all the for-and-against Kindle pieces popping up, here’s a gigglesworth I haven’t seen anywhere else … As for Kindle, international or otherwise, it ain’t gonna break out. At least, not until all e-readers are multi-format, and the gizmo itself is multi-platform – i.e., that it allows you to play video / film, listen to music, watch TV, surf the web (properly), etc. The Kindle (or Sony e-reader, or any of the e-reader variations) isn’t competing with the book, it’s competing with the laptop / notebook / tablet, the palm-held, the mobile phone, etc. Would you buy a mobile phone that didn’t have a good camera built in? Or that didn’t allow you web access?
Meanwhile, the Kindle-only CRIME ALWAYS PAYS is currently languishing at # 44,813 on the Kindle charts, which suggests that the above is a severe case of sour grapes. Boo, etc.
6 comments:
Where have you been? I had it ages ago, and I stole it off Julie Bertagna, who stole it off someone who ...
But it is good.
Oh wow, WHAT did you say?
Ms Witch - I made a comment to the effect that I had been to London to look at a queen, rather than the queen, and the blog threatened to self-destruct. So much for sexual freedom, eh?
Cheers, Dec
And here Donna is getting away with large onions and stuff...
It's the Norwegians' curse, I expect.
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