I think the only way to get it to work is if they practically gave them 
away.  $400 is too high a number to help buy resistance.  The is an 
early adopter - product for the gadget addicted only

Martin wrote:
>
> I was one of the first folks to leap into the notion of online book 
> reading. I ahve the Gutenberg site bookmarked, and I used to frequent 
> many online places featuring fiction. I stopped because I don't have 
> the time to downloasd stuff anymore. I just can't see this working, 
> despite its portability.
>
> ravenadal <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:ravenadal%40yahoo.com>> wrote: 
> http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140474-c,electronics/article.html 
> <http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140474-c,electronics/article.html>
>
> Amazon Kindle 'a Bit Sad,' Designer Says
>
> French designer Philippe Starck has proclaimed Amazon.com's Kindle e-
> book reader "almost modern" but "a bit sad."
>
> James Niccolai, IDG News Service
>
> Tuesday, December 11, 2007 09:15 AM PST
>
> Philippe Starck, the French designer who champions simplicity over
> form, has proclaimed Amazon's Kindle e-book reader "almost modern"
> but "a bit sad."
>
> Starck was a speaker at the Le Web 3 social-networking conference
> outside Paris on Tuesday. After an energetic, rambling speech about
> modern design, he was handed a Kindle by the technology blogger
> Robert Scoble and asked what he thought of it.
>
> "In this type of product, the best design is the least design
> possible," said Starck. That means it should be small, simple and
> strong, and not distract from the content, which should be the most
> interesting part.
>
> The Kindle almost achieves that, "but the designer wasn't quite
> humble enough to completely disappear, so he made a little slope
> here, a diagonal there," Starck said. "It's a little sad because the
> concept is modern, but the design is less modern, because the
> designer doesn't want to disappear."
>
> "No no," he concluded, "it is almost modern."
>
> The Kindle launched last month for US$399 and allows people to
> download books and newspapers over a wireless network. It is a fairly
> plain device with a large screen, a keyboard and gently sloping sides
> designed to make it comfortable to hold.
>
> "Our top design objective was for Kindle to disappear in your hands --
> to get out of the way -- so you can enjoy your reading," CEO Jeff
> Bezos said last month.
>
> Amazon should consider it got off lightly from the critique. Earlier
> in his speech Starck said most products today are designed only for
> profit and without consideration for those who use them. They are "10
> percent useful and 10 percent [expletive]," he said.
>
> His speech was billed as "What is social about design" and bore
> little relation to high technology, although it was probably the most
> entertaining speech of the day and got the most laughs, touching on
> furniture designed for sex, Viagra, and the evolution of design over
> 4 billion years.
>
> "I try to make furniture that makes my friends have better sex," he
> said, adding that he plans to get married next Saturday.
>
> "There is no reason Good can't triumph over Evil, if only angels will 
> get organized along the lines of the Mafia." -Kurt Vonnegut, "A Man 
> Without A Country"
>
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