The charge for reading blogs could be expensive, but considering the incredible fact that Amazon are not charging a monthly fee and still provide EVDO access to things like Wikipedia, it’s fairly understandable. Allowing unlimited access to blogs as well would cost them a fortune.

Once they get some desktop software going (which I hope they will), equivalent to iTunes, things would get a lot better and this device would look great compared to any competition. The only trouble is the DRM and the fact that Amazon could drop the service at any time that worries me… I would need some guarantees (like knowing that they’d unencrypt all books before closing the service down).

It would be consiberable if:

1. You could display unprotected books / PDF
2. You would get a free copy in ebook format for every old fashioned, printed book you buy from Amazon.
3. If the Amazon-Ebook-Format would be readable by other devices and you can print out.
What sense does a book make, when you want to work with it, do research and can’t copy parts of it, or print them out?
4. Redesign it to be very, very easy and a lot thinner – take away those awful array of buttons!

This idea defies everything a book is and what you do with it. What if I wanted to give a passage, like I and many others do, to somebody? I put it on the copier and give it away. Just to show somebody and interesseting passage. Not to make an illegal copy of a book. It’s more free advertising for the book: what companies just don’t get. According to companies like Amazon – and for example the music industry, too – this is all illegal and we are bad, bad, bad. We should never do this.

They just want to shut of every social interaction, every sharing of information in favor of them selling more, more.

I’ve got nothing against good business, I am pro free-market. But this is a big pile of bs. Sorry.

In the end, they cripple this – already badly designed “niche-product” – so much, that it’s beyond any use for me …