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http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1882988,00.htmlOK this article is funny. The Apple iPhone may be good for a lot of things, but reading electronic books is not one of them. The screen on the device is so small that trying to read War and Peace would make most people over 30 go blind.
That is not stopping Amazon (AMZN) from marketing its ebooks on the Apple handset. (See pictures of the cell phone.)
According to The Wall Street Journal, "Amazon.com Inc. plans to release a program Wednesday for reading electronic books on Apple Inc.'s iPhone, extending Amazon's sales of digital books to devices beyond its Kindle e-book reader."
Magazine and newspaper publisher Hearst recently released its own publication reader and Dow Jones is marketing products to allow people to see The Wall Street Journal on the small screen.
So far, Amazon's sales of its Kindle ebook reader have been modest. Estimates put units sold in the fourteen months since the device was introduced at 500,000. That's not much for a product endorsed by Oprah.
Analysts would be wise to remember that most books are read by old people. Readers under 30 are scarce. They were raised on spending time on PCs and playing video games. Many are under-educated and can barely read at all. Asking people who wear reading glasses to spend a lot of time trying to make it through a book using a small screen is not much of a business.
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« Reply #26 on: March 04, 2009, 06:39:47 AM » |
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Yes. It does count towards the 6. You can have more than 6 on the account, but only share among up to 6.
I'm on the phone with Kindle Support now because only 142 of my 206 books are showing up in Archives. They're going to have to go in and remove the licenses that were created for the other Kindles I've had (Kendal, Edgar I, and Edgar II)..Apparently this is not an easy process and it needs to be done manually, per book. <sigh>
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Yes. It does count towards the 6. You can have more than 6 on the account, but only share among up to 6.
I'm on the phone with Kindle Support now because only 142 of my 206 books are showing up in Archives. They're going to have to go in and remove the licenses that were created for the other Kindles I've had (Kendal, Edgar I, and Edgar II)..Apparently this is not an easy process and it needs to be done manually, per book. <sigh>
So users who go from a K1 to a K2 may still have licenses saying that one of the six downloads has been taken by a device you no longer own? That's not right. LOL |
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« Reply #28 on: March 04, 2009, 06:59:54 AM » |
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it says it will work with iTouch too - anyone try that yet - we don't have iPhone but I do have iTouch
Since the Manage Your Kindle page on amazon.com says "Need to register an iPhone or iPod Touch Learn How", it would seem that it should work with the iPod Touch as well. Of course, you can't believe everything you read on a web page. |
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« Reply #29 on: March 04, 2009, 07:00:14 AM » |
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Exactly. Once a book is licensed for a device, it's there, even if you remove the book from the device, or deregister the device. <sigh> I was afraid this was going to happen. The books that aren't showing up are the ones I always made sure I had with me..Outlander series, In Death series...
They've escalated it and are supposed to get back to me.
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« Reply #30 on: March 04, 2009, 07:00:56 AM » |
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Since the Manage Your Kindle page on amazon.com says "Need to register an iPhone or iPod Touch Learn How", it would seem that it should work with the iPod Touch as well.
Of course, you can't believe everything you read on a web page.
It does..That's what I'm using..I don't have an iphone. |
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« Reply #32 on: March 04, 2009, 07:24:13 AM » |
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I like it! Being a guy (which means: not having a purse...) I don't always take my Kindle with me. My iPod Touch though is always with me and this will be a nice way to sneak in a few more pages until I get back to my Kindle!!
"Analysts would be wise to remember that most books are read by old people. Readers under 30 are scarce. They were raised on spending time on PCs and playing video games. Many are under-educated and can barely read at all. Asking people who wear reading glasses to spend a lot of time trying to make it through a book using a small screen is not much of a business."
Ouch.... a little truth to that, but a bit overstated!
I'm 38 now so I guess I don't throw off the statistics much
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« Reply #33 on: March 04, 2009, 07:27:59 AM » |
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I don't know if I am even going to bother with this. I always have either Hugh or WSB with me and I can't standing reading anything on the iPhone. While it might be a fun experiment, I am not sure it is worth the effort.
My husband might download it for his iPhone, then he'd finally get to read Free-Range Chickens which we've all been laughing over.
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It's really not.. I don't care for reading on my ipod either..BUT I do want to get these past Kindles off my account, I might as well get it taken care of now. Otherwise, I'll just have to do it when I get another Kindle for my younger daughter. |
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« Reply #34 on: March 04, 2009, 07:30:22 AM » |
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My husband knew about this before I did...he has an iPod Touch, and he went into my Amazon account and downloaded a sample chapter of a Digital Photography book. He's really good about asking first before he does something that would charge my account...downloading samples are free! He did download the Complete Works of Sherlock Holmes to my Kindle (it cost something like $4...which is probably a convience-type fee, since all these are public domain books...just nice to not have to search for everything one piece at a time)...I wonder if he'll be downloading that to his iPod Touch as well.
He did show me the sample chapter...I'll say, the pictures are very nice (because they can be rendered in color)...but reading on the iPod Touch would drive me nuts after a while. I'll stick with my Max!
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« Reply #35 on: March 04, 2009, 07:39:23 AM » |
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The complete works by MobileReference are all public domain works. I don't mind paying $5 for the complete works of a given author. I figure the time it takes me to go to the website, download all the books, and transfer them to my Kindle is way more then $5. That and I have all of that authors work in one book and don't add many, many more titles to my Kindle Home page. Navigation in the complete works by MobileReference is really easy.
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« Reply #36 on: March 04, 2009, 07:48:54 AM » |
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I pulled it down this morning and, as promised, it synced up perfectly and my books were exactly where I left off in them last night. Very very cool!
I'm disappointed that periodicals can't be read on it (I'd love to be able to read the morning newspaper on the phone), but I can understand that licensing restrictions probably prevented that from happening. Hopefully those can be resolved at some point.
Otherwise I'm extremely impressed with the app so far, especially considering the potential it has to grow the base of Amazon's "Kindle service."
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« Reply #37 on: March 04, 2009, 07:56:30 AM » |
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especially this part -- "Analysts would be wise to remember that most books are read by old people. Readers under 30 are scarce. They were raised on spending time on PCs and playing video games. Many are under-educated and can barely read at all."[/i] a couple things on that - 1 - I remember thinking that anyone over 30 was old (a long long time ago) and 2 - the older I get the further away "OLD" is  and who else is slightly afraid that the last sentence of that could even be partly true - YIKES the future of the world left in the hands of peopl who can barely read at all??!! Please say it isn't so...  |
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« Reply #38 on: March 04, 2009, 08:01:29 AM » |
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Exactly. Once a book is licensed for a device, it's there, even if you remove the book from the device, or deregister the device. <sigh> I was afraid this was going to happen. The books that aren't showing up are the ones I always made sure I had with me..Outlander series, In Death series...
They've escalated it and are supposed to get back to me.
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« Reply #39 on: March 04, 2009, 08:01:36 AM » |
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I just downloaded the app to my Iphone. This is great, especially for when I don't have PJ (my kindle) with me. (Though it is usually with me wherever I go, but just in case its not!)  |
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« Reply #40 on: March 04, 2009, 08:07:31 AM » |
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Where are your priorities? I am more likely to forget to bring my iPhone then forget to bring my Kindle. |
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« Reply #41 on: March 04, 2009, 08:21:29 AM » |
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This is great! I don't always carry my Kindle with me and now I can still read where I left off on my book.
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« Reply #42 on: March 04, 2009, 08:44:33 AM » |
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I'm going to have to do this when I get home tonight. I have a touch, can't see reading on it much but I usually always have it in my purse so at least if I do forget my Kindle I'll have something to read on. Thanks for the info.
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« Reply #43 on: March 04, 2009, 08:45:47 AM » |
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I am thrilled to have a backlit version of my Kindle books for those times when reading in the dark is called for...... in a car at night or sitting in a dim theater waiting for the movie to start I have read eBooks on my Palm/iPhone for a long time now, so know that the smaller size is not a problem for me as it may be for some. Of course, given light, the Kindle is the one I'll go to for an easier read. |
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« Reply #44 on: March 04, 2009, 08:54:00 AM » |
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Just remember with an ipod touch that unless you're near somewhere with wi-fi, you won't be able to Sync your books. You also won't be able to transfer a book from archives to read it.
I suggest you keep a couple of books active...
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« Reply #45 on: March 04, 2009, 09:01:33 AM » |
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I'm like so many others this will be my emergency reading - just in case I go out without my Kindle (doesn't happen often but it does happen if I am not taking a bag big enough for my Kindle to fit in). Books and knitting have saved our marriage more than once - I am married to a man who could talk paint off a wall and if he goes into a store or runs into someone he knows it can be hours. My touch fits in any bag I have so I will always have something with me -
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« Reply #46 on: March 04, 2009, 09:06:27 AM » |
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OK, I set it up on my iPhone. My initial observation is it works well on a single volume but not well on a multi-volume work like the mobi complete Conan-Doyle. If you read one of the stories at say location 3855 and then switch to a story at location 1288 it will not update the iPhone to your new position, at least that I can accomplish. It remembers your furthest location and asks if it should go there. It works great for stand alone books though.
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« Reply #47 on: March 04, 2009, 09:12:15 AM » |
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Uh oh, unless I am missing something, it looks like this version will only work for Amazon kbooks. Did anyone see a way to d/l other forms of ebooks and keep in sync?
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« Reply #48 on: March 04, 2009, 09:15:00 AM » |
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The only thing that went to mine was the Kindle content. If there's a way to get other stuff I don't know what it is. This is certainly a good start though.
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« Reply #49 on: March 04, 2009, 09:15:18 AM » |
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I wonder if the iTouch has this new Kindle app, too. I don't have an iTouch, but DD does. I'll have to ask her.
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