Amazon Kindle books to be pulled

[tombogan03884]

The last time they went through something like this the books disappeared from peoples computers (I'm not sure how Kindle works but people lost content they had paid for )

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100131/ap_on_en_ot/us_amazon_macmillan

NEW YORK – New copies of Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," Andrew Young's "The Politician" and other books published by Macmillan were unavailable Saturday on Amazon.com, a drastic step in the ongoing dispute over e-book prices.

Macmillan CEO John Sargent said he was told Friday that its books would be removed from Amazon.com, as would e-books for Amazon's Kindle e-reader. Books will be available on Amazon.com through private sellers and other third parties, Sargent said.

Sargent met with Amazon officials Thursday to discuss the publisher's new pricing model for e-books. He wrote in a letter to Macmillan authors and literary agents Saturday that the plan would allow Amazon to make more money selling Macmillan books and that Macmillan would make less. He characterized the dispute as a disagreement over "the long-term viability and stability of the digital book market."

Macmillan and other publishers have criticized Amazon for charging just $9.99 for best-selling e-books on its Kindle e-reader, a price publishers say is too low and could hurt hardcover sales, which generally carry a list price of more than $24.

[philw]

hehe    think Apple with be giving Kindle a run for the $$$ 
 

will be interesting

[Pathfinder]

hehe    think Apple with be giving Kindle a run for the $$$ 
 

will be interesting

The new Apple iPon, the feminine hygiene device? Highly doubtful


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4&feature=related

The ebook market is still highly fragile, as evidenced by the Amazon-Macmillan dispute, the previous removal or Orwell's books from the Kindle,  and the crappy iPad - and Kindle for that matter. Interesting to watch, no doubt, but the Apple  at this moment is a fail. The second gen referenced in the video may be better, we'll just have to see.

[philw]

The new Apple iPon, the feminine hygiene device? Highly doubtful


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnT0zp8Ya4&feature=related

The ebook market is still highly fragile, as evidenced by the Amazon-Macmillan dispute, the previous removal or Orwell's books from the Kindle,  and the crappy iPad - and Kindle for that matter. Interesting to watch, no doubt, but the Apple  at this moment is a fail. The second gen referenced in the video may be better, we'll just have to see.

hehe  seen the vid  and  the "with wings"  joke  as also been said here   

yep  it will be a case of wait and see   however  the response has been good from what I have seen however  the Media Hyped it up way too much here and people were expecting more   

[Fatman]

hehe    think Apple with be giving Kindle a run for the $$$ 
 

will be interesting

Apple will see the same bickering and bs  over prices for ebooks as Amazon.

[Sponsor]

[philw]

Apple will see the same bickering and bs  over prices for ebooks as Amazon.

hehe they are all ready used to it with the music   

[Fatman]

The last time they went through something like this the books disappeared from peoples computers (I'm not sure how Kindle works but people lost content they had paid for )

If it's anything like music from a service, the licensing software blocks you from accessing the book. It's there, you just can't read it...

I love the idea of Kindle, not so much the implementation.

For those interested in comparing Apples to Amazons:

Apple's iPad vs. Amazon's Kindle: It's not zero sum

[tombogan03884]

LovemyXDs showed me his phone/ communicator, I forget what brand he said it was but it's basically a laptop computer that fits in a shirt pocket, with phone. He was telling me that he has not used his actual computer in months, We were sitting at the counter in the local Coffee shop and he was logged in here.
Seems like the thing that limits miniaturization is the key board, it has to be large enough to be usable.

[Tyler Durden]

Since I am NOT all that techno savy.... I have to ask...does the Kindle hook up to your computer say like via a USB cord?

Is the electronic version of book in the same format as say if you wanted to read a book on your regular desk top computer?

Is there a back door way to take the e-book off your Kindle or copy it to your desk top....or to a DVD data disk?

I would be ticked if I bought an e-book and then the next time I went to hook the whole sha-bang to the internet, all my other e-Books went POOF!

 

I'd be expecting a refund from Amazon, and I am thinking there are enough Amazon Kindle users out there that they could definitely leverage the threat of a class action lawsuit into making Amazon cough up the dough.

[tombogan03884]

 Have to wait for one of the Geeks to reply, I just remembered the stink about the Orwell books so I posted this when I saw it on Yahoo news.