Tags: Amazon, Books, GitHub Blog, User Experience
2010

Kindle and the Technomob

I am in a particularly pro-Amazon mood today, since they are sending me a replacement for my dead Kindle. However, I wanted to point out this result from Amazon’s dumb decision to delay releases of Kindle book editions:

Kindle owners flooding reviews with 1 star ratings

This shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise. Amazon is snubbing the community of Kindle owners and missing a huge opportunity to increase digital revenues (as I wrote a couple of months ago.) Let me buy a Kindle version early at a premium and I will.