Re: Re: Rethinking Ebooks for Web Browsers

Joe,

I'd only comment that - from the Amazon business point of view - Kindle 
is about fast read, fast turnover. As long as the gross is there, I 
doubt if the potential for beauty or layout is of much interest. I am 
beginning to think they are concentrating on a sector of the market - 
possibly on the pulp fiction idea.  Running text is where the devices 
tend to be unbeatable.

Joseph Harris

On 15/10/2014 18:30, Joe Prentis joe_prentis-/[email protected] [ebook-community] 
wrote:
> Marcia,
>
> As a former programmer of mainframe industrial computers, I know that 
> they can do much better than what they have done with providing us 
> with a device that makes the ebook attractive as well as useful. I am 
> not trying to sell Adobe or any of their products, but as a user, I 
> know that they have only touched the surface with what can be done 
> with electronic books. Kindle is a business that earns many billions 
> of dollars for the owner. They are trying to do what they do on the 
> cheap, and it affecting the product we produce for them. Video, 
> pictures, sound and resizing fonts is possible on a hand held device. 
> Will they ever provide one for us? Only God knows.
>
> Joe Prentis
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