Simple: no content. The technical offerings by Sony sucked. The Science Fiction section was small. The other sections may have been fine for all I know–but if they followed the model of these other two sections, they sucked as well. I have a Sony Reader, and the primary thing I use it for is to [...]
At Daring Fireball, John Gruber hopes that the Amazon’s Kindle fails because the books being sold by Amazon are wrapped in DRM and cannot be loaned or reasonably transferred to another format. I appreciate and understand his misgivings. I really do. I have three walls full of books which is evidence of how much I [...]
It’s clear now. The RIAA and the Vivendi Corporation (who backs NBC and NBC Universal) are friggin’ morons. Really, though, it’s not their fault. Most broadcast networks, music companies and book printers have built their business model on the simple premise that they are, first and foremost, distribution companies. And until recently, distribution has been [...]