tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post8913235988669097792..comments2024-03-29T09:22:57.031+00:00Comments on Declan Burke: Books: The Final Chapter?Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post-71540273747811407762007-11-21T15:32:00.000+00:002007-11-21T15:32:00.000+00:00Hi Eimear - I can see it taking off alright (appar...Hi Eimear - I can see it taking off alright (apparently Kindle has already sold out of its first run, although there are no details as to how big that run was), but as to whether it can sell past the techie market into the reading market is another matter entirely. One comment I read yesterday was to the effect that Kindle was genius 'because I read two books or more a month'. Erm, a whole two? Gee ... Me? I like stories more than I'm attached to books, but it'll be a long, long time before I abandon books for an electronic version ... Cheers, DecDeclan Burkehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14322645323239292406noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4938060587020568315.post-48160483404777659382007-11-21T12:17:00.000+00:002007-11-21T12:17:00.000+00:00I agree that this is unlikely to take off. I mean...I agree that this is unlikely to take off. I mean, I have no interest in buying one of these readers and I've bought a few e-books in my time. Generally for books I could only get by Amazon from the U.S. and ME WANT NOW. But I don't consider them a replacement for the real thing. <BR/><BR/>Also since it's not as good as a paper book it needs to be cheap enough for an impulse buy e.g. €5 or thereabouts. Format is another issue which I won't even get into.<BR/><BR/><A HREF="http://parabasis.typepad.com/blog/2007/11/kindle-spiel.html" REL="nofollow">This guy</A> agrees with you on the whole book / wheel thing - I particularly like his comments on the difference from the iPOD.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com