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    Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers

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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    09/10/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Joins E-Reader Suicide Stampede: Report
    I sneaked a peek at a Kindle over the shoulder of an attorney during a bankruptcy creditor meeting. Everyone can tell the whole story in one sentence.
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    Image of ihatetwitter ihatetwitter
    09/10/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Joins E-Reader Suicide Stampede: Report
    Why not partner up with other mags to present a united front in charging for content? Maybe have a wallet that can be shared with all the partnering sites. I like magazines but I will never read one on a kindle or a sub-standard Time Inc. branded product. After all, isn't that just a web page?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    09/10/09

    In reply to Time Inc. Joins E-Reader Suicide Stampede: Report
    I hope Nike makes one. That would be rad. And Xtreme. yeah.
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    Image of jackvinyl jackvinyl
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    If i was in college, i could see carrying around all my textbooks and notes in one computronic device -- is this Kindle utilized thusly?
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    Image of ifstone ifstone
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    A Kindle that brought you the full web, even in grayscale, without video and for a price, would be a killer product. You have to wonder why Scamazon hasn't done this for chrissake.


    I'm reading Gawker right now on a heavy laptop that's tethered to an AC outlet and too awkward to take outside on a beautiful day. I print out articles from magazine websites so I can take them with me, and it's a PIA. I have little interest in carrying around a dozen Dan Brown novels, but reference books would be pretty nice.

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    Image of Perhaps Not Perhaps Not
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    Good post, except for the phrase "doing more with less." You don't do more with less. You do less with less. It's like "work smarter, not harder." (my God, if I'd only been working smart all this time, I could be in Tahiti by now!)
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    Image of Tremonius Tremonius
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    You take five books to the beach? Really? I can barely work through one Gawker article before I'm fried.


    Newspapers are like the ticking biological clock pressing on her live-in boyfriend for a proposal.

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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers


    $360 plus tax for the Kindle plus $14 per month for each newspaper.


    This is why Kindle fails.

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    Image of Aaron Altman Aaron Altman
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    It is possible - though not probable - that newspaper and magazine sites will stop allowing free access to current and archived content... which is how they should've done it in the first place if they wanted to survive. Because relying on people to pay hundreds of dollars for a device in order to read stuff you have to subscribe to to get is just fucking stupid.
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    05/04/09

    @Aaron Altman: what if a newspaper device were free, like cellphones (with subscription)?
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    Image of Peter Feld Peter Feld
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    And extra points for saying "the old" rather than "the olds."
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    Image of narnio narnio
    05/04/09

    @Peter Feld: yeah, that was really close.
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    Image of Cheap Shot Cheap Shot
    05/04/09

    In reply to Why the Large-Format Kindle Is Not a Life Raft for Newspapers
    Very good post. That last part about building better magazine sites and newspapers is spot on. I really can't see users being into e-papers with no links. Perhaps the middle ground is that the links will stay within their domain? Kind of like when AM NY prints links to there own site?
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    Image of ClockOnTheStove ClockOnTheStove
    03/25/09

    In reply to Why Amazon.com Should Buy Digg
    Amazon's reviews can be wickedly entertaining as well. Case in point, Looking For - Best of David Hasselhoff: [www.amazon.com] (Be prepared to waste an hour or so.)


    The song "Hot Shot City" is particularly good. (1,042 people can't be wrong.)

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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    03/18/09

    In reply to Wacky Discovery Founder Sues Amazon.com over Kindle
    I'm patenting a method of binding words printed on paper into piles that can read on the subway or in bed or while sitting on the crapper. I'll call it a Bound Original Order Kindle (BOOK).
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    Image of braak: You are, as usual, completely correct. braak: You are, as usual, completely correct.
    03/18/09

    In reply to Wacky Discovery Founder Sues Amazon.com over Kindle
    Don't you actually have to have a blueprint of something before you can patent it? Like, I can't just patent "lightsaber," and then sue anyone that eventually figures out how to build one, can I?
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    Image of BadUncle BadUncle
    03/18/09

    @braak: I have one word for you: "Vapoorize."
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    03/12/09

    In reply to The Twitterati Drink Alone, or with Jenny 8. Lee
    My adoration of Jenny 8 continues unabated.


    It's just an eccentricity of mine. I beg your indulgence.

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