Please explain

[james_davis_nicoll]

Why anyone would think that this product is a good idea.

Comments

[montoya.livejournal.com]

If they want serious marketshare, they'll release a piece of software that works on all platforms -- Windows, Mac, UBUNTU, Palm, Symbian, Windows Mobile -- and uses open, un-DRMed files that you buy from Amazon. And then do some really awesome introductory pricing to get people out of their current habits (someone else suggested giving you free e-book access to every physical book you've bought at Amazon; this would obviously cost them a pile of money, but hey, throwing away money to get marketshare is Amazon's founding principle).

Until that happens, paper still rules.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

"Introductory pricing" -- the versions of my books list at the same price as a dead tree edition. Not a big selling point...