Re: "New Kindle Fire Review"

It appears that the author is expressing the position of Project Gutenberg.
Is this the case? If not, then I believe he needs to use the same
communications channels available to the rest of us.

Don Kretz

On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:27 AM, James Adcock <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have to admit I am disappointed and disturbed that PG is publishing an
> anti-Kindle rant on its website home page.  Especially since the content is
> untrue.  I have a Kindle Fire and am not subjected to ads all the time.  I
> do not have to download PG books first to my desktop computer and email
> them to my Kindle Fire, etc.  So the review is clueless.****
>
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>
> There is indeed much to dislike about the Kindle Fire, and Amazon, just as
> there is much to dislike about the other ebook readers and ebook reader
> vendors, including Apple and Google and BN, etc.****
>
>
> But an intelligent review of these issues would be one based on factual
> knowledge of the products – plural – and would discuss factually, based on
> actual real expert user knowledge, what each product can actually do and
> not do – and then would leave the purchase decision up to the end customer
> – rather than plugging one product as being the “solution.”  ****
>
>
> Having PG shilling for one vendor does not increase its credibility nor
> its prestige.****
>
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> Jim Adcock****
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