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   Also the #1 crippled product at Amazon

   

   fogbugzd (profile), Nov 30th, 2009 @ 9:15pm

   
   

   It is still very proprietary and DRM'd. Lately the have made some tiny holes in the walls surrounding the Kindle and its books, but I am not about to buy into a system that is designed to make it as difficult as possible to read the books I have paid for in the manner that I want to. There are a lot of other systems available, although I am still waiting for someone to get it right.

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 30th, 2009 @ 9:26pm

   
   

   things might change once Barnes and Noble releases its reader (maybe)

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   Anonymous Coward, Nov 30th, 2009 @ 9:28pm

   
   

   Is anyone really surprised that the announcement is as useless as the product?

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   DRM and Revocation

   

   bob, Nov 30th, 2009 @ 9:35pm

   
   

   When I own a book I can give it to someone else to read.
   When I own a book I can sell it.
   When I own a book the publisher can not stop me from re-reading it.
   Until I can do that with a kindle, it holds no value to me.
   With very few exceptions I buy old books that were on the best seller list last year.
   On trips when I want to read a book I go and buy a used one.
   The Gutenberg project has many books I have yet to read also.

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   dude!!!!!!!!

   

   Anonymous Coward, Nov 30th, 2009 @ 10:20pm

   
   

   dude! this is their product and obviously they are trying to promote it. why r u bitching abt it?
   
   PS:Nope. I dont own a kindle nor planning to own one. + I dont care abt amazon

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   Re: dude!!!!!!!!

   

   Chargone (profile), Nov 30th, 2009 @ 10:44pm

   
   

   Or actual words, apparently.

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   Yes, Kindle is crap

   

   Yosi, Dec 1st, 2009 @ 12:39am

   
   

   The point Amazon trying to make is "many people buying it, so you should be too"; in other words, network effect.
   
   Unfortunately, to many people don't understand "features" of DRM until it bites them right in the ass.
   People are stupid, people will pay.

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   Yeah!

   

   Brooks (profile), Dec 1st, 2009 @ 1:21am

   
   

   And there's a local ice cream place whose number one selling ice cream is this salted-caramel-chocolate blend. But, because other ice cream places also carry vanilla and chocolate but don't carry this unique flavor, clearly this unique flavor isn't all that popular.
   
   Is it just me, or does this article boil down to "Breaking news: sales of premium products at exclusive outlets not representative of global commodities"?

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   Kindle

   

   El pookie, Dec 1st, 2009 @ 3:39am

   
   

   Unprecedented sales, I am sure. Brilliant. Good to see puffery alive. Next annoucement: Amazon will now be known as Amazon.

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 1st, 2009 @ 5:21am

    
    

    and you can get one with only one click - Wow

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    Re: Also the #1 crippled product at Amazon

    

    Hephaestus (profile), Dec 1st, 2009 @ 7:21am

    
    

    Look at the Barnes and Noble Nook it uses the android OS allows book sharing and will probably allow book sales and gifting in the future.

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    Re: Re: Also the #1 crippled product at Amazon

    

    MattP, Dec 1st, 2009 @ 7:43am

    
    

    Gah...another product tied to AT&T's 3G network!
    
    I live in one of those non-blue areas of the coverage map. (Verizon 3G is superb here btw!)

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    Anonymous Coward, Dec 1st, 2009 @ 8:16am

    
    

    I find Amazon.com so troubling.
    
    On one hand, they have so many products I need, and I don't have to dish out my credit card number to everyone on earth.
    
    On the other hand, each product page comes with an ENORMOUS WALL OF TEXT AND IMAGES, uncustomizable, unavoidable, and generally featuring stuff I do not want - Kindle versions of books. MP3 downloads of music.
    
    I wonder if current web browsers still allow you to merge your own style sheets in -- a lot of display: nones; clean up Amazon's display.

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    Re: dude!!!!!!!!

    

    Derek Kerton (profile), Dec 1st, 2009 @ 2:24pm

    
    

    He's writing about it because it's technology, and this blog seeks to tell "the rest of the story" on technology. Amazon is trying to mislead people with the way they are expressing the data. Techdirt is pointing this out.
    
    Or, as you might better understand, "the r3st of da stry."

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    I Love Amazon, but...

    

    Derek Kerton (profile), Dec 1st, 2009 @ 2:32pm

    
    

    As a shopper, I buy stuff at Amazon maybe 4 times a week.
    
    And I love the Kindle from a geek perspective. But I hate it from a DRM perspective. I think it's too expensive, and it has too limited functionality, though that's a matter of taste.
    
    But with respect to the Kindle's sales figures, they have always kept the actual sales numbers secret. This is normally the trick of companies that are selling unimpressive volumes. Amazon has claimed great success, without backing it up. See this story, and my comment from July 2009: http://www.fiercewireless.com/europe/story/t-mobile-and-vodafone-stall-kindle-launch-germany/2009-07 -01
    
    What is MOST interesting about that link is if you read the reply to me from the article author, Paul Rasmussen. It indicates that as early as July, Amazon had claimed that the Kindle is its best selling electronics product. Is the recent Announcement from Amazon actually news, or just a re-hash of the same old top-seller stat?

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    Re: Re: dude!!!!!!!!

    

    Anonymous Coward, Dec 1st, 2009 @ 5:31pm

    
    

    It would be "teh" actually.

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    It's probably still impressive

    

    Hans, Dec 3rd, 2009 @ 8:24am

    
    

    Don't pretend to be so naive. Of course it's overhype, it's a press release, which is advertising, not journalism.
    
    But think for a minute how much stuff Amazon must sell, and consider what it means for Kindle to be the "#1 bestselling product across all product categories". Even for just for November.
    
    I don't and won't own a Kindle because when I pay for information or entertainment, I own it, not license it.

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    Re: Re: Re: dude!!!!!!!!

    

    Derek Kerton (profile), Dec 10th, 2009 @ 4:13pm

    
    

    tks yo

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    Re: It's probably still impressive

    

    Derek Kerton (profile), Dec 10th, 2009 @ 4:19pm

    
    

    Yeah, but it's a store selling their own product. Isn't that a little like Sears saying they sell more Craftsman tools than any other brand?
    
    My take is this: If you want the market to be impressed with how many Kindles you've sold, don't play games by massaging some statistics. Just tell us the @#$%#$% number.
    
    Otherwise, with all due respect to a great webstore, STFU.

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