Steve Jobs: Kindle is flawed because people don’t read
Steve Jobs says the whole concept of Amazon’s Kindle is fatally flawed because people don’t read anymore:
“It doesn’t matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that people don’t read anymore,” he said. “Forty percent of the people in the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is flawed at the top because people don’t read anymore.”
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I ride the bus with several (myself included) non-People every day. I read about as much as I watch TV; that’s probably abnormal.
The fact that sites like Goodreads and LibraryThing get traffic seems to contradict this as well.
That said, it’s going to take a lot to get me to enjoy a product like the Kindle. I like the tactile feel of books, their musty smell, and the volume of space that they fill. There’s something cool about looking over shelves containing hundreds of books. I guess I’m a bit of a bibliophile.
By Brendan on 01.16.08 5:50 pm
I am a huge reader, the Kindle is awesome. The wireless experience is very very good.
Jobs just looks like a self-promoting dork with statements like this. Book stores are certainly thriving more than music stores. I suspect the human race will continue to make use of the written word.
By john ludwig on 01.18.08 7:47 pm
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