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The Amazon Kindle Basic Web Wireless Service: Why It Is a Revolutionary Feature, and Why Amazon Should Keep It Free or Cheap
by: Stephen Windwalker

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Binding: Kindle Edition
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Label: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com)
Manufacturer: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com)
Publication Date: November 24, 2007
Publisher: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com)
Sales Rank: 42887
Studio: Harvard Perspectives Press (indieKindle.blogspot.com)

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This article is excerpted by Stephen Windwalker's book, The Amazing Amazon Kindle (Harvard Perspectives Press, December 2007). Windwalker is author of Selling Used Books Online: The Complete Guide to Bookselling at Amazon's Marketplace and Other Online Sites and creator of the Big Man Getting Smaller blog at http://bigmangettingsmaller.blogspot.com. Approximately 1700 words. PLEASE NOTE: THIS CONTENT IS ALSO INCLUDED, along with much, much more IN How to Use the Amazon Kindle for Email & Other Cool Tricks: Read and Answer Email Anywhere, Anytime on the Amazing Amazon Kindle - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0011XW1E8/ebest

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- Let the Market Decide
Kindle is an experiment and those who want to participate in it pay a substantial upfront charge. Anyone who thinks it's too expensive, too constricting or too risky can wait on the sidelines and see. What bothers me is that so many people are evaluating this product using either the paper book, or their own wish list of features as a standard. I personally prefer to read books on my Kindle rather than on a computer or on paper.

I have accumulated literally a ton of books in my lifetime and have no desire to add any more to my collection, unless it's what I consider a collectible, in which case I'll buy it in paper. Incidentally, I have reached the same conclusion about my music collection. The iPod is just what I need, so I use it. I don't begrudge Apple or Amazon the fees or restrictions, because they offer a quality product and service for the price.

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- Unclear Priorities
If the author feels as passionately as his title implies, then he wouldn't charge people any more than a penny to hear his heartfelt opinion, making it clear that his priority is to help spread the word, rather than making a buck.

What Amazon should do is this:
Each item you purchase from the Kindle store should earn you a certain amount of credit to cover the cost of your wireless access. If there are possibly some Kindle users out there who don't buy anything whatsoever from the Kindle store, and who look to it purely as a clever scheme for finagling a lifetime of free wireless access, (the same kind of diehard sponger who never, ever gives a tip to waiters and waitresses) then those are the only people who should rightfully pay any and all nominal fees that might become an economic necessity if too many hardcore spongers start climbing on board (and weighing down) the Kindle express.
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- ingenious device
i held off buying a kindle because it seemed like a lot of money to read a book {how wrong i was}. after reading the initial revues i found that it was a lot more than that. ive had it now for a couple of months and i dont know how i ever did without it. there are a couple of changes i would like to see. larger area to hold it without changing the page, a much better book cover with stlyus and key stroke chart. i have problems with the internet but not downloading which is amazing, for some reason it takes my user name and password but goes no further {i.e. banks and brokerage acct's}. i cant wait for the improved model and will buy it without hesitation especially if you improve the internet and make it easier to hold. the kindle will revolutionize the world for people like me that love to read and resarch.

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- Nice job
Helpful article, that gets down into the real economics of the wireless feature. I definitely agree that Amazon should not start charging heavily for this tool.

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