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[News] Linux-based Kindle Proving to be a Success Despite DRM

  • Subject: [News] Linux-based Kindle Proving to be a Success Despite DRM
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2007 20:45:27 +0000
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Organization: Netscape / schestowitz.com
  • User-agent: KNode/0.10.4
The Cult of Kindle

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| I’d not given Amazon’s Kindle ebook reader much chance of succeeding given 
| the stratospheric price tag combined with DRM, but then I started reading the  
| customer reviews for it and just realized that the Kindle has already amassed 
| quite a considerable cult following, and this could be crucial to its 
| success.   
| 
| [...]
| 
| The DRM issue also bothers me.  Well, not the DRM so much but the feeling 
| that if this service did tank, you’d end up with a $400 paperweight and no 
| access to the books you bought.   
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=1023


Related:

Kindle, Eee PC top Amazon.com 'most wanted' list

,----[ Quote]
| Ironically, perhaps, it was the N810 that was the only meachine ahead of the 
| Eee PC in Amazon.com's list of best-selling notebooks. Even though the N810 
| isn't a notebook, in the true, computery sense of the word.  
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http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/11/22/eee_pc_americas_most_wanted/


Kindle sold out

,----[ Quote ]
| There is no telling if this is a consequence of consumer demand exceeding 
| Amazon's forecasts as to how many people would want this thing, or if Amazon 
| is taking a page out of Nintendo's book and creating a little product 
| scarcity to drum up business. All I know is I got mine in the mail today, and 
| I'm already in love.    
| 
| Flop? I think not.
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http://blog.blankbaby.com/blankbaby/2007/11/kindle-sold-out.html

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