nytimes.com — When Mr. Jobs was asked at the Macworld Expo what he thought of Amazon's Kindle, he heaped scorn on the book industry. “It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. I presume he won't read this news article then.
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hdar3415Jan 27, 2008
Same guy who thought the mouse would replace the keyboard!
enfenestrateJan 28, 2008
College students read stuff for classes, and that's about it. Once they graduate many of them will never pick up a book ever again.
inkswampJan 28, 2008
I think he's wrong about the Kindle (or e-reader type machines in general.) Eventually, one will succeed. It offers so many advantages over paper-and-ink but we need to see a killer implementation of the idea and I'm not sure if Kindle is it. Either way, I think what he means is that people don't generally read for enjoyment anymore which is, from what I can see, true. I talk to people in my age range about books they've read and get all kinds of conversations going. But I try that with people younger than I am (i.e., in their 20s) and you'd think I was asking them if they had flown to the moon or something. I get this "Why would I spend my time reading books?" reaction more often than I should and that's sort of disturbing. I think reading for enjoyment really is going away.
tringtringJan 31, 2008
Either it was one of those dumb moments that can happen to the brightest, or perhaps we have not fully understood what he meant...right now, it's toss up, difficult to decide which is more likely!
mdrshazamFeb 12, 2008
Yea, I guess that means Steve never read Woz's book 'iWoz' that I'm currently enjoying on my Sony reader...
rodolfoopAug 19, 2011
Steve Jobs was wrong, so wrong that he abusively imposed the book store in itunes. That was not itunes first goal and now nothing seems to please jobs in terms of monopoly, market share or ambition. I wonder if, as he realizes the high traffic of google, he would had the idea of making a search engine too.
toddr2924 days ago
why buy books when you can get them half the price and read them on a kindle like
http://www.yourkindlebooks.net