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The Amazon Kindle and other E-Book Readers
lprkn:
--- Quote from: Dark Flame on 23 Dec 2008, 19:56 ---For The Espresso Machine though, I am a bit confused about how books would be provided in "just about any language" as the Publishers Weekly article claims. Would they not still need translators? I know there are a number of books which I have been interested in reading which aren't available in English, and I fail to see how this machine would solve that.
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I think it addressed a little in the article. I believe it relates to warehousing costs, i.e. Why would you take up valuable space with foreign language copies of books when they do much less business than the english language copies?
Joseph:
But what about when books aren't even available in translation?
Tom:
Nothing probably, unless they gain a massive surge in popularity.
KvP:
Sorta unrelated, but Slate's Timothy Noah has a piece on how Amazon's success (and by extension, the Kindle's success) is not really backed up by any numbers at all. Which is nothing new, really.
Wyr:
Anyone who has or wants one, I hate you.
You are single handidly destroying literature in this world.
Who wants to cuddle in a beanbag for a few hours and read a nice warm gameboy?
Tech goes too far when it starts to take away books. Newspaper comics I have no need for. But books?
My dark prince, people! Will you not be satisfied until you can download books directly into your brain? (Ok, that would be cool, ignore that) Why do you hate paper so much?
For the nerds out there, remember all the good times. I beg of you.
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