![]() On any other planet, no one will ever buy a Kindle again. I suppose if you like the simplicity of being able to do one thing, and only one thing, on a very readable black and white screen with virtually no graphics capability, Kindle is a good deal. This is simply an unfair comparison, no matter how you cut it. The upcoming Apple iPad, also with a 9.7″ diagonal screen, starts at $499. Today’s price for the Kindle in the US is $259 for the 6″ diagonal screen, and $489 for the 9.7″ diagonal screen. Not sure why they call them “sellers” since nothing was sold. Blog feeds (including )Įight of the top ten bestsellers on Kindle today were free downloads.In addition to the reputed 450,000 titles, the store also provides automatic delivery of The advantage of the Kindle at the moment is the depth (outside of book design titles, that is) of the Kindle store. It did contain simple embedded screen grabs with live links if you wanted to open your browser and visit the sites listed, which is basically an acknowledgment that the Kindle simply isn’t designed for this type of color display. Instead I sampled The Web Designer’s Idea Book by Patrick McNeil. ![]() I tried to find a book on book design among the horde of 450,000 books, but no luck. Hicks, and on the next screen you can see what a typical page from this book looks like. On the opening screen you’ll see a sample of a book I downloaded from the Kindle store, Publish Your Book on the Amazon Kindle by Michael R. It presents a basic text interface and shows why typographers are wondering if they are practicing a dying craft. Click to enlargeThe Kindle for Mac software does a pretty good job of emulating the Kindle hardware, without the eInk screen technology, of course.
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