At long last
Posted by Jacques Chester on Wednesday, October 7, 2009
International customers can buy Amazon Kindle ebook readers without jumping through tricksy hoops!
I am quite excited about this. I spend a lot on books shipped via Amazon. The Kindle means that I would spend less per book and eliminate shipping costs.
Edit: Though it looks like they’re only going to sell the plain Kindle, not the enlarged DX variant. Fooey.
Edit 2: You need to order at this page in order to get it shipped to Australia.
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What is going on Jacques, they refused to take my order!
Posted on 08-Oct-09 at 7:20 am | PermalinkThey worry me Kindles. I write on books when I read them. (In pencil of course). Can you do the equivalent? Can you cut and paste some of the text? I expect there’s a lot locked down about what you get that may irritate me. I have seen them and don’t much like the screen or the old 1984 Mac type typeface – not nearly as nice as (say) an iPhone interface.
So I’m hoping that this rumoured Apple Tablet will knock my socks off and just beg me to go out and buy it.
Still Kindle’s are cheap, so I can feel a Christmas present coming on.
Posted on 08-Oct-09 at 11:30 am | PermalinkMaybe this will make the argy-bargy about parallel import for books irrelevant. One interesting thing I found out reading Charlie Stross’ blog is there’s (at least) 3 markets for book rights – the US, UK and most other English speaking places, Australia/NZ, and that authors can often make more selling their rights separately in each market rather than worldwide.
Posted on 08-Oct-09 at 12:17 pm | PermalinkNicholas: You can take notes with the Kindle, in fact a student whose copy of 1984 were deleted sued Amazon because it took his notes on it for an assignment with it.
Posted on 08-Oct-09 at 12:49 pm | PermalinkRafe — I added a link to the original article which should let you order one.
Nick — if Apple produce a reading tablet using an e-ink screen I might think about it. But right now Amazon have the same kind of device-store integration that Apple enjoys with itunes, and that will be hard to beat.
Posted on 08-Oct-09 at 3:23 pm | Permalink