First and foremost, when you get responses of "Not Interested" come to Greg/me for assistance. . .once you have communicated to either of us [you do not have to convince both, or anyone else] we'll fix you up with your own PG site, then you can be off to the races, and also get some PR in the Newsletter.
What I guess I would be interested in doing is trying out "on an experimental basis" a "Mobile Devices Centric" version of the PG website. If it doesn't actually make a contribution to society, well, then pull the plug -- no problem. I think a mobile device centric version of the PG website would benefit not only Kindle users, but most cellphone users. I am assuming that there are other people out there who know so much more about websites than I do that they will laugh at my "contributions" -- but, so be it. But I don't know how to get started, so any pointers would be appreciated.
The first thing I tell people about cellphones is NEVER GET A CELLPHONE WITHOUT WIFI!!!
OK, well if a cellphone has wifi then it just comes down pretty much to an argument of display technologies and screen size. I like eink technology, for me a std Kindle is a little small, I like the DX but admit its starting to get cumbersome to carry around (about the same size as a netbook but thinner and lighter weight). Some are happy to do an iphone size device with backlight LCD,... Still, if I had an iphone I would be running some kind of either EPUB or MOBI reader software on it to provide a more "booklike" experience.
As for fortune cookies, I think you're overdoing it there a bit, but the whole thing is a matter of personal taste.
Well, between an iphone, and ereader, or a netbook, one is still talking about $250 in any case, so then its mainly a choice of form factor and display technology.
As for B&N, I'm afraid all but the largest still don't have "nooks," and I'm afraid it's ruining their credibility, esp. since they sent so many mass mailings out to come see them at earlier dates.
I think the situation was similar for Kindle the first year, except that you couldn't see a Kindle in ANY store. Amazon was at least smart enough to publish their user manuals online -- B&N won't even do that! Again, I think competition is a good thing -- hopefully competition between ebook suppliers will drive them towards adopting less onerous DRM schemes, just as competition drove the music industry towards less onerous DRM schemes.
Is there anything like lots more about Kindles than Sonys or nooks?
Kindles have Whispernet technology, which is great when it works. I'm in a fringe reception area, so sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. It would be great if it also had wifi. Kindle accepts MOBI PRC TXT and PDF (if you have a Kindle DX) which allows one to cover most "free" choices except EPUB, which requires a one-minute conversion via Calibre say, which takes hooking up the Kindle to a PC. It may sound silly, but after hooking up an ereader to a PC a couple hundred times, one starts to wish for something else -- such as Whispernet or wifi.
I've heard there are other eink ereaders out there, any differences?
Mainly that they're even more behind schedule than B&N. Doesn't really matter how good the technology is unless you have a major player supporting it -- if it doesn't, you're going to end up with an orphan device. One might expect Apple to come up with a dedicated ereader, and one might expect Google to do so to. Microsoft tried an ebook effort already which kind of imploded as far as I can tell. Google are the obvious ones to make a hard push towards an ebook reader, IMHO.
Speaking of piracy, is anyone ready to start a work against the obvious 2018 US Copyright Act???
Sorry, what's happening on the "new and improved" copyright front?