Comments on: Kindle and iPhone: New Killer App http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html Tim Berry on business planning, starting and growing your business, and having a life in the meantime Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:20 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Tim Berry http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html/comment-page-1#comment-244 Tim Berry Sat, 07 Mar 2009 18:14:26 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html#comment-244 <p>On reflection, a couple of days later, I wonder if we're all missing the obvious: why not a Kindle format for our laptops? Or would that be a kindle killer, instead of a killer app? </p> <p>Maybe I'm just regressing to wanting the Microsoft eBook Reader on my iPhone, since it's always worked fairly well for me on various laptops. So in that case, why have the physical Kindle?</p> <p>The problem that would solve for me would be consolidating my kindle account as the one place to buy and manage ebooks. Maybe that's the argument to amazon.com, that it would be more complementary to the Kindle, like the iPhone is. </p> <p>And it worries me, as I add this comment, that maybe that's already possible, and I just haven't figured it out yet. </p> On reflection, a couple of days later, I wonder if we're all missing the obvious: why not a Kindle format for our laptops? Or would that be a kindle killer, instead of a killer app?

Maybe I'm just regressing to wanting the Microsoft eBook Reader on my iPhone, since it's always worked fairly well for me on various laptops. So in that case, why have the physical Kindle?

The problem that would solve for me would be consolidating my kindle account as the one place to buy and manage ebooks. Maybe that's the argument to amazon.com, that it would be more complementary to the Kindle, like the iPhone is.

And it worries me, as I add this comment, that maybe that's already possible, and I just haven't figured it out yet.

]]> By: Jacob Webb http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html/comment-page-1#comment-243 Jacob Webb Fri, 06 Mar 2009 18:41:48 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html#comment-243 <p>Great post, Tim. This partnership will contribute to a much more sustainable model for Amazon's Kindle. It's going to create a powerful barrier to entry for all other ebooks struggling to establish a competitive distribution model.</p> Great post, Tim. This partnership will contribute to a much more sustainable model for Amazon's Kindle. It's going to create a powerful barrier to entry for all other ebooks struggling to establish a competitive distribution model.

]]> By: N.Jonathan Christopher http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html/comment-page-1#comment-242 N.Jonathan Christopher Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:22:17 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html#comment-242 <p>Thanks for the article on KillerApps (that is going to help readers). With these KillerApps, I guess that iPhone will get prominence over the Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones in this highly competitive (mobile phone) industry.</p> <p>-Jonathan<br /> www.p2w2.com/jonathan </p> Thanks for the article on KillerApps (that is going to help readers). With these KillerApps, I guess that iPhone will get prominence over the Nokia and Sony Ericsson phones in this highly competitive (mobile phone) industry.

-Jonathan
http://www.p2w2.com/jonathan

]]> By: Tim Berry http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html/comment-page-1#comment-241 Tim Berry Fri, 06 Mar 2009 02:51:12 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html#comment-241 <p>Hi John, chuckling, that's embarrassing, I grabbed that screen shot from the Amazon site.</p> <p>I was a lit major in college, and I do read good stuff, but I haven't read Murakami. Now, of course, through the magic of social media, I probably will; and on my iPhone as well. Because on your recommendation I just bought it, so it's on you. </p> <p>If I had shown you my Kindle list, it would have had a lot more Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Heath Brothers (Made to Stick, and Nassim Taleb (Black Swan). </p> <p>But, in the spirit of sharing, the best fiction book I've read recently, as defined by interesting people, good plot, well written, was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson.</p> Hi John, chuckling, that's embarrassing, I grabbed that screen shot from the Amazon site.

I was a lit major in college, and I do read good stuff, but I haven't read Murakami. Now, of course, through the magic of social media, I probably will; and on my iPhone as well. Because on your recommendation I just bought it, so it's on you.

If I had shown you my Kindle list, it would have had a lot more Seth Godin, Malcolm Gladwell, Heath Brothers (Made to Stick, and Nassim Taleb (Black Swan).

But, in the spirit of sharing, the best fiction book I've read recently, as defined by interesting people, good plot, well written, was The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, by Stieg Larsson.

]]> By: John Caddell http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html/comment-page-1#comment-240 John Caddell Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:55:57 +0000 http://timberry.bplans.com/2009/03/kindle-and-iphone-are-great-together.html#comment-240 <p>Tim, did I see that right? Are you reading "Kafka on the Shore" by Murakami? Bravo! He is one of my favorite writers, and "Kafka" is a great book. If you like that one, you may want to read "The Elephant Vanishes," a collection of his stories, which is unbelievable.</p> <p>regards, John</p> Tim, did I see that right? Are you reading "Kafka on the Shore" by Murakami? Bravo! He is one of my favorite writers, and "Kafka" is a great book. If you like that one, you may want to read "The Elephant Vanishes," a collection of his stories, which is unbelievable.

regards, John

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