So there's been lots of chatter about the Kindle from Amazon. Engadget review here.
I haven't used one. I probably won't use one for a while, but I'm not going to let that stop me opining. I've heard that it's kind of big, kind of slow and that 'it looks like ass'. These are all the sort of version 0.1 comments you'd expect. The ebook is a big problem and it's going to take a few iterations before we get to a solution. Fair play to Amazon for tackling it head on.
What surprised me (and many others it seems) is that if you want to reada blog on the Kindle you've got to pay $1 per month. Per feed. This sounds like a joke right? But it isn't.
Worse that that, according to Seth Godin, there is no way for a feed owner to opt out. Either you're on the platform and your readers get charged or you're not on the platform.
I understand Amazon needs to turn a profit on the device and the cost of delivering the content, but there have to be better ways...
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