Comments on: Read London Theatre Blog on Amazon Kindle http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/london-theatre-blog-on-amazon-kindle/ Group authored publication covering theatre and the performing arts in London and beyond Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:57:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Matt Boothman http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/london-theatre-blog-on-amazon-kindle/#comment-3852 Matt Boothman Thu, 14 May 2009 15:32:53 +0000 http://www.londontheatreblog.co.uk/?p=2107#comment-3852 e-Readers were the topic du jour at this year's London Book Fair. Sony execs assure us that the advantage of having a US-only market (for the moment) is that we can learn from their mistakes; the US ebook market looks poised to repeat the music industry's disastrous DRM policy (mostly because the DRM naysayers, despite being in the right, have yet to suggest a workably commercial alternative). So it'll take a long while before I'm persuaded to buy one to read books on (I like lending books, and I want the option of selling them to second-hand shops, and of passing them on to my descendants), but as a portable online content grabber-and-reader, they have some real potential. All of which is a more roundabout way of saying, "It is by no means a substitute for the printed novel, but its support of online content, including blogs and online newspapers, makes it an exciting reading medium for an increasingly tech-savvy world." e-Readers were the topic du jour at this year’s London Book Fair. Sony execs assure us that the advantage of having a US-only market (for the moment) is that we can learn from their mistakes; the US ebook market looks poised to repeat the music industry’s disastrous DRM policy (mostly because the DRM naysayers, despite being in the right, have yet to suggest a workably commercial alternative).

So it’ll take a long while before I’m persuaded to buy one to read books on (I like lending books, and I want the option of selling them to second-hand shops, and of passing them on to my descendants), but as a portable online content grabber-and-reader, they have some real potential.

All of which is a more roundabout way of saying, “It is by no means a substitute for the printed novel, but its support of online content, including blogs and online newspapers, makes it an exciting reading medium for an increasingly tech-savvy world.”

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