Comments on: Kindle’s $50 Oprah discount: Price $309, in effect http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/24/kindles-50-oprah-discount-price-309-in-effect/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:01:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Garson O'Toole http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/24/kindles-50-oprah-discount-price-309-in-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-943069 Garson O'Toole Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:58:27 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/10/24/kindles-50-oprah-discount-price-309-in-effect/#comment-943069 Thanks to Mike Cane and Tracy Falbe for sharing interesting videos via Youtube and posting links here. Video reviews like Tracy Falbe's help one to assess pragmatic issues like the speed of browsing at the Amazon store. The Amazon marketing videos have carefully selected illumination to make the Kindle look nice, but a candid video gives one a better sense of the true screen contrast. Thanks to Mike Cane and Tracy Falbe for sharing interesting videos via Youtube and posting links here. Video reviews like Tracy Falbe’s help one to assess pragmatic issues like the speed of browsing at the Amazon store.

The Amazon marketing videos have carefully selected illumination to make the Kindle look nice, but a candid video gives one a better sense of the true screen contrast.

]]> By: Tracy Falbe http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/24/kindles-50-oprah-discount-price-309-in-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-939907 Tracy Falbe Fri, 24 Oct 2008 23:19:32 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/10/24/kindles-50-oprah-discount-price-309-in-effect/#comment-939907 I may not be Oprah, but I recently put up a product review of the Kindle on YouTube. Interested buyers can see it in the short video and listen to my comments about how it works and what it offers as digital content device. <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOSCnCCeco" rel="nofollow">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOSCnCCeco</a> I may not be Oprah, but I recently put up a product review of the Kindle on YouTube. Interested buyers can see it in the short video and listen to my comments about how it works and what it offers as digital content device.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UOSCnCCeco

]]> By: Mike Cane http://www.teleread.org/2008/10/24/kindles-50-oprah-discount-price-309-in-effect/comment-page-1/#comment-939858 Mike Cane Fri, 24 Oct 2008 22:18:21 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2008/10/24/kindles-50-oprah-discount-price-309-in-effect/#comment-939858 If anyone missed the show and wants to know what went down, I have a write-up: http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/debrief-oprah-and-the-abominable-kindle/ If anyone missed the show and wants to know what went down, I have a write-up:
http://mikecane2008.wordpress.com/2008/10/24/debrief-oprah-and-the-abominable-kindle/

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