How many women read these articles? what percentage of TC readers?

Why do people persist in comparing the Kindle to the iPad???? I am guilty of that and I think the media have led us down that route. Even iPad advertisements show the iPad in action as an e-reader.

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What different between iBook and iPad?I’m really confuse!!!

Why does TC refresh while I’m in the middle of a vid??

Only go there if you want spyware installed on your machine.

I think that the iPad (or any other device with a nice reading experience – even an iPodtouchXL) will be a Kindle killer.

Who would want to carry (subway, beach and even bed), maintain (batteries etc.) and pay for an extra device for reading only, when
other devices can do it more or less the same.
If its about about the words/content this will happen – real fans/lovers even print out/read PDFs of Steven King…
If its about the experience, people will grab a hardcover/paperback that still will be there in the future…
BTW: People also started to use Walkmen other than Sony back in the days…

I think it’s about 30% due to the heavy tech focus.
http://tiny.cc/7SOi4

Female reader here. I use Kindle for reading, iPad for mobile light business stuff and the usual entertaining time wasting apps. For narrative text, e-ink is superior in my opinion. Non-drm PDF documents can be read on the Kindle 2 & DX.

As I read a couple of hours at a pop, e-ink is much easier on my eyes. The Kindle is much lighter and doesn’t require a wireless hotspot to use. Much of what I use the iPad for, does. The difference in battery charge is huge. I don’t have to lug around extra cords, etc., to recharge.

Amazon customer service is fabulous. Problem with the Kindle, they ship replacement, next day service. They also support the books. As formatting of ebooks can be so bad as to be unreadable, Amazon will offer refund if you request, or if book is updated, contacts you and offers the updated version at no charge. Apple/iBooks do not. If you want the updated version, you have to buy a new copy.

I switched to ebooks as too often, I couldn’t find the books I wanted (even on week of lay down date) in brick and mortar stores. I do not want to waste my time waiting while a clerk has to run to uncrate a book. I had to run around a Borders to find a copy of Gaiman’s Graveyard Book. Not shelved in Childrens/YA, not SF/Fantasy or General Fiction. It was on one of several tables. Buying print published books became work.

As an aside, I do wonder why one would bother printing a pirated version of a Steven King novel. Wouldn’t it be cheaper to buy the print published version? Time, paper, toner/ink cartridges, etc. Doesn’t make sense to me.

I think the new price points are very interesting.. but I am a big fan of the Kindle

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A good interview. I’d also started thinking that ebooks are eventually going to replace all that publication of pulp/popular books that are in remainder bins a year later and “orphans” after that.

Bezos on Rose’s show was very convincing. I have ten boxes of books in the garage and the collection keeps growing and it can half an hour of digging to find one – so much better to have them all on a comfortable reader as well as in sync on various other devices all the time. No comparison of Kindle with an iPad at $140 to $190 and free 3G. I’m expecting my netbook PC to last a couple of years more, and then the question will be another one of those or a tablet with equivalent functionality.

What is up with these links to nasty sites appearing in all TC comments?

Here’s what Mcafee’s siteadvisor says:
http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/nimp.org/postid/?p=1849374

Your phrase “more or less the same” shows even you realize it’s NOT the same

I don’t really like how much kindle fanboys you are..
You talk about eReaders with touchscreens, Sony has an eReader with touchscreen for around ~$300 and there’s the BeBook Neo too. I can’t really see why you are so negative about the nook’s lcd touchscreen either. The Kindle has a big ugly keyboard while the nook tries something new and get a whole lot more uses and features with that lcd!

So… is your blog about the merits of spamming the comments section of tech news sites?

Begone, vile spam monkey.

I would agree that Kindle is a great reading device – if you don’t have an iPad. And it’s not because iPad can do video in the book – it’s just that it’s the first portable computer that can also be used to read a novel with in your chair.

Dedicated eReaders will have a place – in particular in another couple of years where they get really cheap where they are effectively disposable. Because I do believe there is an audience that will want the benefit of carrying lots of books on an eReader but even at a price like 140 US – it’s too expensive to try. But if it was $20 -then it changes.

You’re so wrong. It’s FAR easier to read on the Kindle/Nook/whichever reader than it is to read on the iPad. Also, better battery life (we’re talking weeks here compared to 10 hours). Then there’s the whole price thing. $300 less is a huge difference…

Also, Sony owns the Walkman brand.

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