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I have seen the future and you can't have it. Ha ha.
I have one. you don't. Nur-nur-ni-nur-nur.
"Early adopters", we are called "early adopters" in the business ".
Or at least in the marketing aspect of the business.
Engineers call us beta.
Testers "due to errors, faults, deficiencies and Cocks --ups we find (
Privilege has been paid)
Whatever it is, it is included in the subsequent version, so the later adopters are happy.
They called us "fools" on the street ".
This is not to say that the next new thing is really bad.
The next new thing rarely sucks.
It's just a little bit. . . sucky.
A little silly.
The first mobile phone is a fool.
The first Apple Mac: There's a fool now;
Excellent computer, revolutionary design, charming interface, do any work on it.
Now, people compete for who has the first child in this country.
Stephen Fry said he had
Douglas Adams said, no, he said.
God knows the truth;
All I know is that I was the first person in the UK to be personally given by Steve Jobs. Nur-nur etc.
Da Cabo is disgusting.
The first digital camera sucks.
The first iPod sucks.
The first laptop is really, really bad unless you have a circle like a gorilla and a handy AC power supply.
The first car is very bad, the first bottle stopper (
All the corks since then
Of course, there's the first horse that sucks.
Like the size of a big mouse, with the wisdom of a cork. But this. . .
I realized I didn't tell you what it was.
This is because for our early adopters/beta-
Tester/fool because how new it is.
It's enough for me to have one. you don't.
What do you want? Blood? Details? Fair enough.
This is the product that will change the game.
It may be the savior of the publication, or it may be the great hope of the newspaper, which is actually white.
Here is the eco-friendly answer to the book: no trees are harmed when making this product.
This is everything you want to know, hidden in your funky canvas pocket --and-distressed-
Leather Ally Capellino messenger bag.
It is the MP3 player of literacy and the eyepd of reading.
It's Amazon's Kindle.
When I say I have one, and you don't, I really mean I have borrowed one, and you and I can't have it because it's American.
It's us email. reader.
Very good, but very--no, utterly --American.
It will store thousands of books.
It will download your daily newspaper.
If you have a problem with your neurochemistry on the bus, you suddenly decide that you just need to have the new Dan Brown, why!
You can be in-
Click™In a few seconds, the wireless download of the credit card. In America.
If you are an American, have an address in the United States, have an American bank account in Bank of America, and open a US credit card to your US address in dollars, which is your request.
Or forget it.
Has been built-and, boy, has been built, as thousands of Europeans on the Internet complain that they can't have a witness, and thousands of Americans are trying to come up with more and more baroque solutions, use their kindle while you're on vacation-I 've managed to do it, thanks to a friend in Los Angeles, bought one and downloaded some "books" on it ", then send it to the UK with a cover note that says "this is the Kindle that you mistakenly left when you came to stay. At MY HOUSE. In AMERICA.
"Of course, this is very unnecessary.
All he has to do is write "value: $0.
"00" on the label, which is exactly what it is worth outside of the United States.
But it came and I took it to a proper Greek island and let it spin.
This special Greek island is suitable for one of them. . . well;
Think about Faliraki.
This is not the case.
The island is full of creative writing courses, music courses, painting courses, hiking, and most likely people from the inner goddess workshop.
In this climate, I think the Kindle will give me a reason to feel better from the check --
At the Gatwick airport desk.
Because these people are the ones you see paying for excess baggage, because they have: 1 Tilley hat in their huge suitcase;
1 khaki cloth shorts; 1 toothbrush; and 83 books.
When they go to the octopus
Haunted, sturdy rock at Monodendri Beach, each carrying four books: one they are reading, one in case they finish reading the book they are reading, one in case they don't like the one they bring, just in case they finish reading what they are reading, and one in case three other people fall into the sea and are washed by an octopus.
I will be there, my lightweight Kindle contains thousands of books to sail by checking
With my canvasand-distressed-
Including my MacBook Air and thousands of pre-
Lit up the books and walked easily to the beach with thousands of books, usually wearing literary dogs like nobody cares.
Until an abnormal wave of tide, a capsized boat, or a light-eating cephalic animal;
There were thousands of books and they entered briny at once.
Needless to say, the idea is extraordinary;
The concept is great, but very old.
Douglas Adams was basically brought up in the Hitchhiking Guide, a portable screen brochure
In addition to more intelligence built in, readable information is surprisingly like a Kindle.
The Kindle may not have the "Don't panic" button, but even so, it's a good panic --
When the other person is late, the flight is delayed indefinitely, the subway has stopped running, or any other trouble that can only be saved by reading.
When the train stops unexpectedly, you never realize that you forgot to buy your stand-alone car, 200 yards away from Adlestrop.
The second hunt through the Friends League
When your elderly father's outpatient appointment is backed up to last Thursday, the hand book stall.
Anywhere with whiskey (
™Or maybe®)
Signal, with Amazon, waving hypnotically like Reeperbahn harlot, ready to embrace you with its ample bandwidth.
You get it if you want it.
But only if you're American. In America.
There is no whiskey anywhere else. Why not?
You might as well ask, "Why should you add whiskey ? "
What kind of confusion is this name imagined, how is it going to go through the management board, which shows what they think we are?
What Amazon is not saying is why.
British public relations sources said there is no plan to launch the product in Europe.
They are not involved in the development of the Kindle.
Don't tell them about America.
Is it because of the fragmentation and connectivity of mobile wireless networks in the EU?
Is this related to digital copyright management?
Don't they care if we support them in Iraq's disastrous adventure?
The US Office of Media Relations has nothing to say.
You will get an answering machine on this question by making a phone call, A surprising transgender woman who clearly blames you tells you "please put your name, your email, your specific deadline, and the nature of your call
Experienced journalists are used to such things (
Unlike "citizen journalists", they are all the people we will leave after the second network.
0 obliterates the mainstream media;
They don't even know how to call the news office).
What experienced journalists do is: we lie about the specific deadlines so they can't solve the problem when it's too late to reply to you.
They came back.
Shortly after my deadline for lying, an email came up: "Hi Michael," Thank you for your interest in Amazon Kindle.
Kindle is only available in the United States.
We know that Kindle is what our international customers want and we look forward to serving them, but there is nothing to announce at this time. "Okay. Gotcha. None the wiser.
It could be an automated machine.
Maybe no one there.
Maybe it's just Jeff Bezos, stuck in a huge warehouse with only beeps --'n'-
Packaging robots for the company.
So we're on our own.
More than one way.
One way we rely on ourselves is that there is no near
The instant wireless download of Whispernet, the Kindle has basically been blocked.
Commitment is any book you want (
Amazon stores it as long as the publisher digitizes it)
, Wireless delivery when you sip tight latte in the dim sun of Shmentral Park.
But, crossing the border, the Kindle lacks radio waves, just a static front
The stored text has no chance of all this.
Important impulse buying.
Or starving.
There is a road around. Sort of.
In the United States, you can find an American bank and buy one for delivery.
Amazon gift certificate can be purchased (
There is no doubt that they will close this loophole soon, which makes you an honest American)
And use them through Kindle e-books.
You can download these on the internet, download them to your computer, and then transfer them from your computer through a USB cable that you have no doubt about (
So, like, order one from Amazon, shlemiel)
Your Kindle.
There is no doubt that some people will do this.
* Reading on the Kindle-actually collecting text from the page-is a strange vague experience that raises more questions about how we read and why, rather
The first ambiguity is that the text is there, but the typesetting is not only bad; as an art-
Form, what is the font, it is not
On the Kindle
From Chaucer to Malcolm Gladwell, the fonts for each book are the same.
The strange thing is that this experience is disturbing.
Is this a delusion?
According to Miranda Bolt --
Partners with the London company have won graphic designers. "No.
Typography can not only help you read, but also show you how to read a specific text.
It is strange to provide only one font and a dull one. " What is it?
It's called cassilia.
Remember the name.
It will be as famous as God helped us Ariel Verdana and Times New Roman.
She added: "At first I thought maybe the person who bought these things was not really interested in the physical experience of reading, but then I thought, no;
If so, they will buy audiobooks on their ipod.
They must also like reading.
But the Kindle is not pleasant.
Very flat anddimensional.
Not that there is no expertise in digital design;
In the latest design week survey, numbers are bigger than printing, branding, and all of them are well combined.
So I don't understand.
It seems that they have just lost their experience in 500.
"But do people really notice typography? "Not as such.
I think they will feel different instead of seeing different.
Only the printer can see the difference.
I mean, for example, why can't you choose your font when you download something?
How hard is this?
"Or better yet, let a professional graphic designer do it for you. . .
On the other hand, paper-and-
Screen ink simulation for Kindle is good for text. The E-
The ink technology developed by MIT means that you can read the Kindle wherever you read the print on paper. (
Anywhere you need the reading lights on the book, you need the Kindle reading lights. )
But, at least for me, after reading about 15 books, I found the idea of Victor Nell's "read by Rudick"-that the physical text was gone, the reader's build of what's behind the text takes over-is unlikely to be implemented.
The Kindle will never disappear completely.
Part of it is the dull print of this thing.
The Kindle mechanism is also part of it.
There is no concession in its hard shell;
Page turning needs to click the button, at which point the text will be briefly reversed before it is replaced by the next page.
There is no point in your position in the book (
There is a "progress bar" but it is different from the physical balance of the read and unread pages of a book in your hand).
It's impossible to remind yourself of a previous episode, or to look at a footnote.
Of course, there is absolutely no texture here.
We live in a world we see through glass.
In almost the vast majority of cases, tablet screens increasingly mediate between us and our experience.
We work on computer screens, communicate, research, walk, host affairs, do banking, play games, watch TV and movies.
Seafarers navigate through screen charts with radar coverage;
The monitors for the "glass cockpit" only tell the pilots what they need to know and decide what it is.
Our map is on the GPS screen while we are driving.
Once the rest of the dynamic recording set art is downloaded to a tiny iPod screen. Even surgeons (
Except for the one that actually peeked under the endoscope)
Participate in the operation by staring at the screen.
This book is now.
Yes, this book is a strange, ostensibly outdated industrial or former
By chopped trees, rags, oil, glue and (If you're lucky)cloth;
Distribute in baskets of trucks, planes and postman bikes.
Agents, editors, publishers, designers, printers, warehouse administrators, distributors, consumers, retailers all perform their duties.
In this world, we use electrons instead of atoms to transmit information, which is a special way to output a product, and it can be said that nothing is strange except information.
If we start from scratch now, who can come up with this except for the madman?
Or an example of pencil theory?
This shows that if Woodand-
After the PC, a graphite pencil with rubber at the end was invented, and the world will be shocked and ask them loudly.
If the book was invented after the Kindle. .
It will be a revolution.
Books are symbiotic: you can share with friends, lend them, give them, store them in places and ways you like.
The book has taste, texture and form.
Who are you (
Or what kind of person you want to be;
As a teenager, I would sit sadly at the party with the sadness of young Weiser, hoping for a beautiful girl to come over and say, "You look funny;
Would you like to go out with me? ").
How much romance begins when a noticed person walks through a cup of coffee --
Shop, what is B looking at and saying "how are you playing ? "?
"Kindle can't do this;
"What are you reading on there?
"It's just a little too intrusive.
Similarly, how many disasters have been avoided when the girl 24 noticed the 26-year-old boy, albeit tall, black and handsome, reading the Daily Mail?
You can download your paper every day (
If you are an American, etc)
But when no one knows what you're reading, a lot of the fun is gone.
You can throw a book in the room.
You can read it in the bathroom without fear.
You can delete the pages if they offend you.
You can make marginalia different from the Kindle's annotation feature.
You can open more than a dozen books at the same time on your desk.
You can continue the list yourself;
This is a long one.
All you can't do with books is computers.
You can't collect all the notes in one place.
You can't choose the paragraph you want to record-I counted -
Three mouse clicks.
You can't search for words or phrases throughout the library.
You cannot adjust the type size when the light or vision becomes dim.
You can't control digital copyright if you are a publisher.
Finally, like most swords, doubleedged.
Once someone bought a book, it was theirs.
Once someone has downloaded the email
This is not what they wrote;
Sellers control how they get it and what they can do with it.
I can't give you a copy of my Bambi vs from David MameiGodzilla.
I can't even lend it to you. It's not mine;
In the true sense of the word, it "belongs" to my Kindle.
I'm just the curator of it, if you want.
The relationship between me and my book has changed forever.
* After a relatively short acquaintance, and the envy and infatuation of gratifying people (
"I don't know if you can buy these in Europe. " "You can't. ")
My temporary partner.
Islanders, two things seem clear.
First of all, Kindle is not a substitute for books;
In fact, this is also not a substitute for the library, and although 10,000 people are "borrowing" the same book and are not afraid of being recalled halfway, the idea is confusing.
The analogy with the iPod and its similar products is also inaccurate-they are so overthrowing the stupid, rigid, unintelligible record industry, and most importantly, you can't get the books you already have on your Kindle. CDs? No problem.
Rip them off to iTunes and you go.
Is China's scar micville? Sorry;
You have to buy it again.
If you don't have it on the Amazon Kindle Store, it's hard. Outta luck. Too bad, pal.
However, it is likely to be the savior of the newspaper industry;
Or at least that part of it that should be saved.
I want to say Indy on Kindle looks good but I can't.
It, like the Washington Post, the Sports Illustrated, was mysteriously transferred somewhere on their transatlantic trip to the archives and I couldn't take them out anymore. (
"No whiskey ").
Maybe I'm not even my own librarian.
Maybe I'm just a reader. A nuisance.
The person who interrupted the smooth progress of the matter.
Am I in America? . .
Why, there will be my morning post, sent to a closer Place (and earlier)
More reliable than anything to me
American kids sitting on a Schwinn bike can throw it.
Rupert Murdoch may be heading towards "paid content", but I read whenever I click on the link on the internet and find that I have to pay $2 to read.
Subscription, though: it's another thing.
Bring Virtual paperboy.
No matter what we think of Amazon, it certainly has great power in its database.
Targeted advertising in quality newspapers may reverse this trend, which has created a massacre in the US regional newspaper industry and tightened the belt to the last level.
Tell me what you read and I will tell you what you will buy.
Amazon already knows.
But now imagine a two-way Whispernet-a Whispernet that sends data up and down-you can see the possibility.
This system can know what you are reading and how long you are reading.
About the new Porsche?
The dealer advertisement came.
Studying trolls and Orcs?
We will sell you an anorak.
The possibilities are amazing.
Some of them were also monitored and invaded.
Almost all of this needs to be renewed.
Think about the various models of publishing.
Some possibilities may even change the relationship between the author and the reader, just like Kevin Kelly, a technical blogger.
He imagined that it seemed to be a magical book, and among many, the "author" was a voice in which the reader tore, burned, scratched, and sampled to make multiple super
Text that is infinitely variable and fluid.
Anyone who has read Web 2.
0 "-the Twitters," reviews "and witless sub for Amazon readers-
Have a cultural rant on the various versions of "Have your say"-it's possible to see clearly that Kelly might be an amazing cookie and it would be interesting to see what happens to the first copyright --busting K. Kelly mash-up. . .
* Overall, judging the Kindle concept on the current device is as stupid as judging the future of personal computing on BBC Micro.
This is an ongoing work and a work with great potential.
Even in its present incarnation, it has the most important qualities: it is good enough.
For travellers flying with hand luggage only, for walkers, for those departing from Frant at 7: 17, it will be a happy trip (memory)stick.
For anyone who has lost a book: Why, it's still on Amazon and they know you're entitled to it.
Personally, I'm afraid to give you my back.
It became indispensable in just two weeks, especially when I realized that with the MacBook Air and the "my" Kindle, I could have all the books I might want, and all my professional, administrative, and literary life, all in two packages, more than the paperback novella and fashion
There's a strange place.
After reading David Mamay's "Bambi.
Godzilla, I found myself thinking, "I really like this ".
I have to buy one.
In other words, physical books, not just electronic bookstext.
Maybe publishers can trade on this: if you buy the Kindle text and then want something real, the money you spend on e-commerce
The price of the book was canceled.
If you can somehow prove that you already own the book, you may get a Kindle download for a lower price. . .
These things require a huge database and powerful computing power, which is why the collaboration between Kindle and Amazon is as important as the collaboration between iPod and iTunes Store;
In any case, this is one of the powerful advantages of the Kindle over something valuable but worthlessquite-there-yet Reader.
So, even if we are not Americans, why can't we have it here? Well.
The experienced reporter also knows that PR people can speak in code.
Take a closer look at Amazon's email.
Don't just look at it; read it.
Maybe it's saying, "We 'd love to tell you that Europe is coming, but our lawyers say we can't. Not yet.
"There may be things that need to be solved.
It may be technology, copyright or patent;
But they "expect" to serve us at this time, not "expect ".
"This is my guess.
The Kindle will be available in Europe for Christmas and the publishing model will change forever.
How sure am I in my guess?
I opened a book on it.
Recommended reading by Michael Gold David Mait Bambi
Julian Hawthorne, an outstanding figure of Gladwell (Ed. )
"The best mystery detective library in the world" jared Diamond "crashes: how society chooses to Fail or Succeed "Andrew Keane" the worship of amateurs "Barry Schwartz" The Paradox of Choice how luxury is lost in the Odyssey (trans. Robert Fagles)
Edward Gibbon's history of the decline of the Roman Empire, Raymond Chandler, long-winded, Charles Dickens collection, Mark Twain, Tom so I can see them in there. But I can't understand them without Whispernet. I know there are some in it, but without Whispernet, I can't even see what electronic reading they are: 1968 Arthur Clark predicts the development of the electronic "fool --
"News advertisement" in his novel ": A Space AODE ".
Device insert Dr.
Heywood Floyd's ship receives the latest reports and newspapers from 1991 of the Earth. Sony has developed the book as a literary alternative to its Walkman. The CD-
The screen of the ROM gadget is small, the resolution is very low, and the reception effect is very poor.
1998 Softbook Press's Softbook and NuvoMedia's Rocket eBook are the first e-reader devices created primarily for consumers.
Customers use dial-up to download e-books through each company's online bookstoreup connections.
Sony released its first electronic product, Libri é.
Readers use electronic paper display technology to mimic the appearance of ink on paper.
The 2006 Kindle's main competitor, Sony Reader, was developed by technology used by Sony librie and sold in the United States.
The 2007 Amazon Kindle was released in the United States and became the most successful electronic product. reader to date.
Shopkeepers can buy e-books, magazines and newspapers from Amazon.
PRS 2008 Sony Reader-
505 issued in the UK in cooperation with Waterstone;
Nintendo released 100 classic books on the DS console.