Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label amazon. Show all posts

Wednesday, May 06, 2009

Thoughts on the Kindle














I don't have a Kindle. I have never really even used one except for a few seconds to play with a dummy one, or was that a Sony... It was a while ago. Anyway, I get the idea.

I do have the Kindle app on my iPhone though and have read a ton of sample books and even bought one book and gave it a real try. It works great!

The problem I had with Kindle as of a month ago: It's too expensive.

The problem I have with Kindle (both of them) as of now: They are WAY too expensive.

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Dear Amazon,

The Kindle is pretty amazing. It's small, lightweight and uber portable. E-ink is freakin crazy cool wizardry. But it's too expensive. You needed to make the regular size Kindle $200. But now that you made a big version (why?) you really need to lower the prices. Do what Apple would have done and make the big one the price of the old little one and make the little one $200. Is your overhead really that massive? You will sell way way way more of these if you lower those prices. Your chance to corner the market is now.

Sincerely,

Mike.

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That's all.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Help Find Steve Fossett!

If you were good at "Where's Waldo" then you're gonna love this! If you haven't heard of Steve Fossett, then Google him. Here's the scoop... rich guy with a pilots license. Yup. We can't find him. So Amazon and Google have teamed up to have you and I look for him.

http://www.mturk.com/mturk/preview?groupId=9TSZK4G35XEZJZG21T60&kw=Flash

You can use either Google Earth or Amazon will give you 300 ft by 300 ft pictures and ask you if you see anything that looks like anything. You need an Amazon account if you don't have one though.

Good luck!

Hint: It looks like this...