Monday, November 19, 2007

The Amazon Kindle: dog, dog, double-dog!

Another dog! Another device that does exactly what laptops and handhelds already do! Sorry, Jeff Bezos, but this is another step in the direction of a dead end. People want to carry FEWER use-specialized electronic devices -- not be encumbered with more. You should dump your efforts in this vein and invest them, instead, in getting every book on Amazon in electronic formats that are already widely available. Just about everyone's already walking around with a smartphone or Iphone or PocketPC or Blackberry. All these devices can display documents in whatever format you like: PDF, text, Word, proprietary. We don't need another freakin' device! We need content.