Re: "New Kindle Fire Review"

>Nearly everything there comes from direct experiences that Marcello and I
have had, augmented by Googling for guidance, warnings, ideas, and best
practices.

Come on Greg, this excuse doesn't fly.  People on this forum and others have
been explaining for years how one can directly download books from the PG
website to their Kindle devices.   This was all sorted out back in 2008.
See:

http://www.amazon.com/Million-Kindle-books-available-now/forum/FxBVKST06PWP9
B/Tx15UAKRX5252A/1?_encoding=UTF8&asin=B000FI73MA

also trying searching

http://www.mobileread.com

on "Kindle"

Rather, let's call this what is it:  "The Power that Be" at PG not only
think they can but that they should be "picking winners and losers" for
customers in the ebook reader marketplace.  This isn't a case of the tail
wagging the dog.  Rather this is a case of the flea on the tail of the dog
trying to wag the dog.  It just doesn't work.  Customers will buy what the
customer wants to buy.  Maybe they choose to buy a Kindle because they are
Prime members and the Kindle gives them a particularly convenient way to
order pancake batter with free shipping.  So what?  If you want them to read
PG books you need to offer them attractive well formatting books which
actually work on *their* device not *your* device.  Marcello might be
successful in trying to influence what PG volunteer transcribers buy for the
reader device -- except that DP already has much more interesting and
intelligent forums on the subject, as do other web sites including
mobilread.com -- and even IF Marcello were successful all that would do
would be to further ensure that PG books are not going to work on the full
range of devices out there in the marketplace.  On the contrary we ought to
be encouraging developers both at PG and at DP to buy the full range of
weird, wonderful -- and each variously "broken" in its own particularly
maahvalous way -- ebook readers, in order that PG understands what it takes
to make books that actually work for customers -- and so, maybe, dear god
just maybe, PG might decide to step up to the bat someday and fix some of
their books which are horrible broken.




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