http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/12/cash-rich-mozilla-foundation-should-help-sponsor-the-idpf-and-build-native-epub-support-into-firefox-or-at-least-do-a-plug-in/ News & views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:07:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 http://www.teleread.org/blog/2007/11/12/cash-rich-mozilla-foundation-should-help-sponsor-the-idpf-and-build-native-epub-support-into-firefox-or-at-least-do-a-plug-in/comment-page-1/#comment-635423 blogx » Blog Archive » The Kindle Thu, 22 Nov 2007 15:50:38 +0000 http://www.teleread.org/blog/?p=7590#comment-635423 [...] The New York Times has an article on Amazon’s latest offering, the Kindle. Beyond the notable performance of the reader, is the carrot of (AFAIK, unlimited) wireless connectivity to the internet which is a road that Google has been travelling down for quite some time now, starting with buying up as much dark fiber as possible. Wondering if there is a Google Amazon co branding? Not likely methinks, seeing that Amazon is using it’s proprietary and closed technology to offer every book available in the world instead of open standards, while Google continues to just suck up content in their own way. [...] [...] The New York Times has an article on Amazon’s latest offering, the Kindle. Beyond the notable performance of the reader, is the carrot of (AFAIK, unlimited) wireless connectivity to the internet which is a road that Google has been travelling down for quite some time now, starting with buying up as much dark fiber as possible. Wondering if there is a Google Amazon co branding? Not likely methinks, seeing that Amazon is using it’s proprietary and closed technology to offer every book available in the world instead of open standards, while Google continues to just suck up content in their own way. [...]

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