The Future of Reading
Amazon totally b0rks the launch of their new ebook reader jackassingly called Kindle, by tying it to draconian 1984-inspired DRM and Terms-of-Service: The Future of Reading (A Play in Six Acts) by Mark Pilgrim. Brilliant and horrifying. And exactly the reason why Kindle will and should ultimately fail. John Gruber also breaks off some whup-ass for Kindle.
Three cursory things:
- All that white plastic is gonna get caked with mung, after a few months of greasy handprints (planned obsolescence?)
- what’s with all the buttons? these guys ain’t seen an iPhone?
- I’d love to see Apple come out with a similar tablet touch-screen device that kills the Kindle on usability, form+function and no DRM
