Complete video at: fora.tv Is the Amazon Kindle here to stay, or simply “kindling” for the escalating tablet wars? Brooke Gladstone, host and Managing Editor of NPR’s On the Media, argues the latter. Some publishers who don’t want to price their content at the standard Kindle rate of $9.99 are separately negotiating with Apple, she says. —– Companies across the media industry are racing to get their eReaders in the hands of consumers, which means big change for the publishing industry and the media business overall. Organizations are scrambling to ensure that their readership is not lost as the reading habits of their long-time consumers are redefined by the upheaval caused by the new wave of eReaders. With Apple’s iPad release scheduled for April 3, the Paley Center gathered a group of senior media executives to discuss strategies for how the media industry can most effectively retain consumer loyalty as well as capitalize on one of the most talked about new gadgets of 2010. Moderator: Josh Quittner, Editor-at-Large, TIME Panelists: Brooke Gladstone, Host and Managing Editor, On The Media, NPR Keith McAllister, Online Editor, Reuters Scott R. Singer, Managing Director and Head of Media and Entertainment, The Bank Street Group, and author, How To Hit A Curveball: Confront and Overcome the Unexpected in Business Kiliaen Van Rensselaer, Chief Marketing Officer, Skiff Brooke Gladstone is an American journalist and media analyst. She is host and managing editor of the …
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The E-Reader Wars: Is the Amazon Kindle Simply ‘Kindling’?
Posted on31 July 2010.
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I can’t imagine reading an entire book on an iphone. Short news articles and stuff is fine, but a book? No thanks. Kindle is much better for that sort of thing, and it’s not cumbersome or heavy like the iPad.
I bought my son a Kindle 6 months ago,and now he’s going insane for an iPad!I now have a $300 useless device(I prefer my books in paper.They’re usually less money and reading on digital media hurts my eyes after a few hours).If you’re debating,just buy the iPad.
Nothing will ever replace the book. Ever.
Even though I read books worth of written information on my computer, when I want to read a book, I want to read a book. I want to sit down in a comfy chair or on my back porch with a cigar, a whiskey, and hardcover book.
Reading on a screen just seems like content tourism. It is there, then it is gone. Shuffled away onto some external hard drive never to be seen again.
Not everyone wants an iphone though. Also, it’d be a pain in the ass to me to read a long book on something the size of a phone. I understand the desire for a device that does it all, but it’s hard to be good at everything. For people who want something that does it all, that’s fine, but there’s going to be compromises.
I take my Kindle everywhere, inside a light leather case. It’s fantastic. And it is beautiful to read on.
I have a mini projector… I hike out to the woods with my dog and some lunch, then lie on a log while my ebooks project on the clouds high above. Best way to read EVAR.
I don’t know, I love my Kindle… And reading on a conventional LCD screen? Forget it.
Of course the real future has far more interesting options. Ex. 6th Sense projector type tech, lightweight translucent fashionable HUDs, or flexible LCDs that are both expandable and nearly indestructible.
@wrongheadedfool Could you link that article please?
I think the anecdote presented has merit; we can bemoan the limitations of phones and tablets all we want, but I assure you there are a lot more of those ‘average’ and non-techie people out there – the kind that would choose a phone simply because it’s convenient, who don’t care about what’s optimal. And in the end it’s the majority that will drive how consumer technology progresses, so we would do well to consider what is popular, not what has the best specs or is the ‘proper’ technology.
Interesting discussion. I just read Stephen Fry’s article about Steve Jobs and the iPad last night, so the idea was fresh in my mind when I started browsing today. It’s interesting to see the Kindle/iPad conflict heat up; but will it actually go anywhere? Maybe they’ll end up serving two different markets.
I-phones are unreliable trash. Whose pocket is this person in?
One thing the iPad doesn’t have that Kindle does (along with most e-readers in the market) is the e-ink technology which basically doesn’t strain your eyes from reading. iPad has better refresh rate–you can really turn pages quickly like a real but it’s glaring screen is a setback.
iPad is just hype. You can’t even multi-task. The browser doesn’t even support Flash.
iPad is just for the masses, something shiny.
There will always be a market for separate e-readers so long as there are actual readers — I mean by that, human beings who can actually read.
Reading all your books on a telephone is basically for a non-literate society.
Hmmm, maybe e-readers don’t have a future after all……
Within the decade, all this technology will be contained within a single sheet of plastic transparency so that we’ll be reading entire books off one (literal) page.
when a device can switch between “page-like” screens and regular screens the stand alone e-reader will be obsolete.
Dedicated e-readers may be doomed, but I doubt they will be obsolete any time soon. E-readers have major benefits that cellphones don’t have. A cellphone is fine for very basic casual reading, but not for anything else. Anyways, all technology we have right now will eventually be obsolete. Even the cellphone could start dying out if a new technology was put on the market a few years from now. Still, the basic concept of a cellphone or e-reader won’t disappear even if it takes new form.
I thought competition was supposed to lead to lower prices. Why is it in the technological market prices tend to go up rather than down no matter how much competition there is and no matter how big the market is?
I love reading digital books on my cellphone (HTC Touch), would never use anything else. Who wants to carry around an extra device or something huge like an iPad or Kindle?
Brooke Gladstone is so full of it, she needs to be pwned.
cool discussion, i’ve been considering a digital book thingy for a while now.
she doesnt have a clue