It appears that the author is expressing the position of Project Gutenberg. Is this the case? If not, then I believe he needs to use the same communications channels available to the rest of us. Don Kretz On Fri, Oct 26, 2012 at 8:27 AM, James Adcock <jimad@msn.com> wrote:
I have to admit I am disappointed and disturbed that PG is publishing an anti-Kindle rant on its website home page. Especially since the content is untrue. I have a Kindle Fire and am not subjected to ads all the time. I do not have to download PG books first to my desktop computer and email them to my Kindle Fire, etc. So the review is clueless.****
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There is indeed much to dislike about the Kindle Fire, and Amazon, just as there is much to dislike about the other ebook readers and ebook reader vendors, including Apple and Google and BN, etc.****
But an intelligent review of these issues would be one based on factual knowledge of the products – plural – and would discuss factually, based on actual real expert user knowledge, what each product can actually do and not do – and then would leave the purchase decision up to the end customer – rather than plugging one product as being the “solution.” ****
Having PG shilling for one vendor does not increase its credibility nor its prestige.****
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Jim Adcock****
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