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January 19, 2008
Steve Jobs on the Amazon Kindle »
As quoted by John Markoff of The New York Times:
It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore. Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.
That statistic alone is depressing if true, but I still think Chipp Kidd’s assessment is where the true crux of Kindle’s—or any other ebook reader’s—real challenge lies.
November 28, 2007
A Brief Message: Notify the Next of Kindle »
Chipp Kidd nicely sums up the iPod to Kindle comparison:
The reason the iPod took off is that music was never meant to be a “thing” in the first place. It was born as pure sound, and pure sound is what it has returned to. But books were always physical objects, and the printed book as a piece of technology has yet to be improved upon. And won’t.
November 20, 2007
BusinessWeek: Kindle is the iPod of Books »
If by “iPod” you actually mean “shit-brown Zune”, then yeah. (via: Daring Fireball)
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