A Weblog of Centrist Voices in American Politics
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November 24, 2007Kindle Followup: Opener Than We Were Lead To BelieveEarly adopters have blogged that the KIndle is freer than the press releases lead people to believe. According to Tom Evslin (seen from a comment on this unhappy Buzzmachine post, when the Kindle has connectivity, you can read blogs and download and read text or Word all for free. There's ALSO an optional subscription blogreading service (which will no doubt go down the tubes compared to the free version). To me, these are huge changes, because you're no longer utterly dependent on paying Amazon to get anything other than Wikipedia, and getting anything but Wikipedia in DRM. $400 now gets you the Web and Gutenberg and many other things in free formats in addition to the for-pay Kindle Library. You do have to pay for certain conversion charges in Kindle email, a much more reasonable limitation, as I see it. I wonder if Bezos or somebody else knocked heads internally over an earlier less-free version and they neglected to update the literature. That would explain the unfree blogs. The unfree blog network couldn't be undone easily because they've promised to pay whatever tiny share to participants. Also, the web browser is labeled Experimental in the first shipping Kindles, consistent with a last-minute change in product conception. Scotch Drinker blogged about it, too. Some interesting Kindle paranoia. Some of these are worth thinking about at least for a few seconds. I certainly don't see freedom anywhere collapsing due to the Kindle, but it is true that the Kindle world is different and has real tradeoffs worth thinking about. Posted by Jon Kay at November 24, 2007 12:52 AMComments
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