"Amazon’s Kindle DX reading device launched this month, with a bigger screen and a much higher pricetag than the Kindle 2.0.
The device itself features a larger screen with more
shades of gray for better display, a bigger hard drive (3.3GB) that can
hold up to 3,500 books, and auto-rotation, so that users can read
content in either portrait or landscape mode... What's next in store for the Kindle? Atom Films reckons it can only get bigger, skipping ahead to the “Kindle 9XXXD” in this parody video...."
I just ran across this video from the NYT (below). This is another very interesting reflection of the strong trend towards content delivered as software. Just like bands and record labels deliver their music on iPhone apps (and even charge for it much like a CD), the NYT now delivers their content to any computer that can run Adobe Air - and I just love the way they put this - good going, NYT!
Sander Duivestein, senior analyst at Sogeti's VINT, and one of the co-writers of this powerful ebook that provides a huge amount of both information and inspiration for anyone pondering the Future of Media, just send me the link to where his great book can be downloaded as a free PDF. Go get it before they run out of server juice;)
The full title is: Me the Media: Rise of the Conversation Society - Past, Present and Future of the Third Media Revolution
The authors are Jaap Bloem, Menno van Doorn, Sander Duivestein. There are some pretty cool illustrations in the book as well (see below).
I will be chewing my way through this during the next few weeks - hey, I may even take advantage of this opportunity and start using my new Sony Reader, i.e. without printing all 292 pages.
The main topic of the book (as far as I have read it, at the time of this blog post) is how drastically things have changed because WE 'the people formerly known as consumers' are becoming more empowered by the minute, i.e. it's increasingly more about MEMedia than about THEIRMedia; about conversation and engagement not (you guessed it) about Control. The video below provides a nice intro as well, more vids are
here. This is a must-read, imho! Be sure to pass on the news of the release.
Incidentally, I have found a few slideshows on Slideshare that are also a very good fit with this book, including this one (not mine:), and, naturally quite a few of these PDFs might also make a good fit (yes, they're mine;). Enjoy. Don't print.
I have blogged about this before, but here's a quick reminder that you can now read my best 2008 blog posts and essays on your iPhone, online or offline. Just get the great Instapaper reading app (there's a free one, and a premium one which I very much recommend), register with Instapaper and add this page to your 'read later' list. Then, sync your iphone to download the content so that you can read offline. Great stuff! Instapaper reduced my printing costs by 90% already. If you want to download the PDF, instead, please go to my Free Content page.
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