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21 November 2007 @ 9am

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The genius of Amazon’s Kindle e-book :: THOREAU Interface Design

Guillaume Thoreau calls the connectivity model on the Kindle a breakthrough:

That’s what I call something huge in term of user experience: no sync via a PC, no WiFi hot-spot hunting, no subscription fee, no subscription at all! It’s a naturally connected device.

It sounds like it – assuming the closed purchase model of buying and subscribing to books, newspapers etc through Amazon subsidises the use of the Sprint network? If that’s the case, I wonder what happens when the first hacks appear allowing free web access…
The genius of Amazon’s Kindle e-book :: THOREAU Interface Design


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