Comments on: TKC 78 Harvey Chute http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2010/01/15/tkc-78-harvey-chute/ The Friday Podcast All About Your Kindle Sat, 28 Jan 2012 00:06:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: KindleBoards » Chatting with Len Edgerly about CES, Kindle, and K’Boards http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2010/01/15/tkc-78-harvey-chute/comment-page-1/#comment-22235 KindleBoards » Chatting with Len Edgerly about CES, Kindle, and K’Boards Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:06:23 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=962#comment-22235 [...] While I was in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Len Edgerly, host of the weekly Kindle Chronicles podcast. His interview with me went live today, you can listen to it at this link: TKC episode #78. [...] [...] While I was in Las Vegas at the Consumer Electronics Show last week, I had the pleasure of meeting Len Edgerly, host of the weekly Kindle Chronicles podcast. His interview with me went live today, you can listen to it at this link: TKC episode #78. [...]

]]> By: Al MacDiarmid http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2010/01/15/tkc-78-harvey-chute/comment-page-1/#comment-22207 Al MacDiarmid Sat, 16 Jan 2010 21:57:10 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=962#comment-22207 I agree with Rick, a really good podcast this week. I suggested before and will iterate it again that to get the dictionary definition in a larger font, just hit the enter key and it comes up on its own page in the same font size as that with which you are reading your book. In low light or late in the day I have to use this feature if I am to use the dictionary at all and am not put off by the extra couple of steps. As for the cat, mine is all over me and I am petting her while reading my Kindle and have not yet been zapped. Perhaps the humidity is higher in Kentucky? I am presently reading 29%. I agree with Rick, a really good podcast this week.

I suggested before and will iterate it again that to get the dictionary definition in a larger font, just hit the enter key and it comes up on its own page in the same font size as that with which you are reading your book. In low light or late in the day I have to use this feature if I am to use the dictionary at all and am not put off by the extra couple of steps.

As for the cat, mine is all over me and I am petting her while reading my Kindle and have not yet been zapped. Perhaps the humidity is higher in Kentucky? I am presently reading 29%.

]]> By: Rick Askenase http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/2010/01/15/tkc-78-harvey-chute/comment-page-1/#comment-22175 Rick Askenase Sat, 16 Jan 2010 14:00:47 +0000 http://www.thekindlechronicles.com/?p=962#comment-22175 Excellent podcast this week- one of your best. Harvey, whose reports from CES I had read on the Kindle Boards site, was a terrific interview. He really knows his stuff, has his finger on the pulse of Kindle readers, and explained them very clearly. I wanted to comment on the EPub issue as I do think it is very important. I believe that Amazon should open the Kindle to EPub format, and that this will NOT harm their ebook sales. Why? because, if you buy an EPbub book from Sony or B & N, it will still have their DRM encoded with it so it won't play on your Kindle. but the K will accept Fictionwise and other sites. More importantly, it will diffuse the hot button issue of "openness" as a knock on the Kindle. I say this, even though openness is a myth so long as ebook sellers use DRM anyway. (I am not advocating eliminating DRM, just pointing out its role in the whole matter.) Furthermore,on this issue, I think Harvey is right that 90% of Kindle owners do not care about DRM or formats and really aren't bothered by it. Why should they when the ebooks from Amazon are cheaper than elsewhere and the Kindle book store is the largest. Finally,on CES, I think the real big issue going forward for the Kindle will be a color screen. Whether this is Mirasol, Liquavista, or some other company, it appears that we may get a GOOD color screen by the end of 2010 (earlier than my 2012 prediction), that it will NOT be by PVi/E-ink. I do believe that color screens will be a game changer (not the book), and will cause ereader sales to really soar. That is what the kindle 3 should embrace. Great stuff this week, and I will check out your other podcast. Query- when do you sleep? Excellent podcast this week- one of your best. Harvey, whose reports from CES I had read on the Kindle Boards site, was a terrific interview. He really knows his stuff, has his finger on the pulse of Kindle readers, and explained them very clearly.

I wanted to comment on the EPub issue as I do think it is very important. I believe that Amazon should open the Kindle to EPub format, and that this will NOT harm their ebook sales. Why? because, if you buy an EPbub book from Sony or B & N, it will still have their DRM encoded with it so it won’t play on your Kindle. but the K will accept Fictionwise and other sites. More importantly, it will diffuse the hot button issue of “openness” as a knock on the Kindle. I say this, even though openness is a myth so long as ebook sellers use DRM anyway. (I am not advocating eliminating DRM, just pointing out its role in the whole matter.)

Furthermore,on this issue, I think Harvey is right that 90% of Kindle owners do not care about DRM or formats and really aren’t bothered by it. Why should they when the ebooks from Amazon are cheaper than elsewhere and the Kindle book store is the largest.

Finally,on CES, I think the real big issue going forward for the Kindle will be a color screen. Whether this is Mirasol, Liquavista, or some other company, it appears that we may get a GOOD color screen by the end of 2010 (earlier than my 2012 prediction), that it will NOT be by PVi/E-ink. I do believe that color screens will be a game changer (not the book), and will cause ereader sales to really soar. That is what the kindle 3 should embrace.

Great stuff this week, and I will check out your other podcast. Query- when do you sleep?

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