techcrunch.com— Amazon’s new blog publishing program has a major flaw: it lets anyone steal other people’s blogs and charge readers for them.
May 14, 2009View in Crawl 4
Whoa! 2$ a month for a blog? To be delivered to a $500 device? Subscribe to 10 blogs, that's $20/$210 mthly/yearly. GTFO! The kindle better start looking for a new comercial add based model, cause your a fool to spend that kind of money for internet blogs, and I foresee their delivery system being a ghost town.
I have a Sony e-reader and I love it - worth every penny to be able to have several dozen books on a ling trip without bringing a crate, or to be able to carry a "large" book on my commute without adding more weight to my bag. Plus, if you like the classics, you can get them for free (quite legally, since there's no copyright) through university websites. As for the aesthetics - purely a matter of preference; I actually find the e-readers easier to hold one-handed than books, especially large books.So - not overpriced at all, imo, for the reader itself (although I'm assuming the new Kindle is more expensive than I paid for it). Just don't get me started on the fact that more *recent* books cost as much for a string of ones and zeroes as you would pay for a physical dead-tree copy.... And the fact that so many books aren't available in (legal) electronic versions at all.....
Well, they could start charging for the kindle's internet connection and give you blogs for free, but unless you read a LOT of blogs, it's going to be cheaper to just pay the $2. AT&T or Verizon will charge you at LEAST $40/month.
The kindle is just a worthless piece of garbage anyway. For the kindleDX price, you can get a similar sized laptop thaat actually has color, reads more book formats and does a f**kload of other s**t.
Can you load your own PDF's on it? This would be a great tool for programmers and tech people if they could load vendor PDF documents on the device.I have several 2000+ page administrative and technical guides in PDF format that I would love to put on one of these.
I didn't explain my reasoning very well there...I comprehend just fine that he was doing this to prove it could be done, but he was still infringing on the copyrights of the NYT's Blog by setting up an account and claiming their blog content as his own. Whether or not he really did donate the proceeds to a charity, do this as a proof of concept, etc (the reasons don't matter) it potentially funneled revenue away from the rightful owner.
awspireMay 15, 2009
Whoa! 2$ a month for a blog? To be delivered to a $500 device? Subscribe to 10 blogs, that's $20/$210 mthly/yearly. GTFO! The kindle better start looking for a new comercial add based model, cause your a fool to spend that kind of money for internet blogs, and I foresee their delivery system being a ghost town.
Closed AccountMay 15, 2009
I have a Sony e-reader and I love it - worth every penny to be able to have several dozen books on a ling trip without bringing a crate, or to be able to carry a "large" book on my commute without adding more weight to my bag. Plus, if you like the classics, you can get them for free (quite legally, since there's no copyright) through university websites. As for the aesthetics - purely a matter of preference; I actually find the e-readers easier to hold one-handed than books, especially large books.So - not overpriced at all, imo, for the reader itself (although I'm assuming the new Kindle is more expensive than I paid for it). Just don't get me started on the fact that more *recent* books cost as much for a string of ones and zeroes as you would pay for a physical dead-tree copy.... And the fact that so many books aren't available in (legal) electronic versions at all.....
mweatherMay 15, 2009
Well, they could start charging for the kindle's internet connection and give you blogs for free, but unless you read a LOT of blogs, it's going to be cheaper to just pay the $2. AT&T or Verizon will charge you at LEAST $40/month.
Closed AccountMay 15, 2009
The kindle is just a worthless piece of garbage anyway. For the kindleDX price, you can get a similar sized laptop thaat actually has color, reads more book formats and does a f**kload of other s**t.
haikufuMay 15, 2009
Can you load your own PDF's on it? This would be a great tool for programmers and tech people if they could load vendor PDF documents on the device.I have several 2000+ page administrative and technical guides in PDF format that I would love to put on one of these.
ivanalbrightMay 17, 2009
I didn't explain my reasoning very well there...I comprehend just fine that he was doing this to prove it could be done, but he was still infringing on the copyrights of the NYT's Blog by setting up an account and claiming their blog content as his own. Whether or not he really did donate the proceeds to a charity, do this as a proof of concept, etc (the reasons don't matter) it potentially funneled revenue away from the rightful owner.