The Kindle's pretty cool. Thousands of books in your hand, wireless internet so you can get more.
However, Amazon is screwing writers. If you wrote something and sell it on the Kindle, the most you can get is 30 percent. Sure, Amazon has to pay for that wireless internet access somehow. But it seems ridiculous for newspapers to only get 30 percent of the revenue from the sale of their product.
I suppose that's a standard percentage for musicians from record companies, but that business model is imploding right now.
I'm glad the Kindle got invented. But between the copy restrictions and the closed platform, I'm glad there are other people working on similar devices. I'm sure an iPhone app to do a similar function isn't that far off. I'd like to see some competition in the electronic book marketplace.
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