Posted on 02/09/2009 5:56:20 AM PST by JoeProBono
When Amazon.com hosts its much anticipated Monday morning e-book event, one of the highlights could be an exclusive deal for the Kindle with horror story master Stephen King.The Amazon event, taking place at the Morgan Library and Museum in New York, is widely expected to feature the unveiling of a next-generation Kindle e-book reader. On Monday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Amazon also will say it has acquired a new work by King that would be exclusively for the Kindle.
Kindle has to be one of the dumbest ideas ever invented (imho.)
You have to spend $300 on a device that does nothing but reads e-books. A function that could easily be done on any number of devices people already own (from pc, to pda, to ipod, to cell-phone.)
He had to go and open his yap about what his politics are, so now I'll let the all the libs pay for his stuff.
I think it's finally starting to sink into the lib's small brain that we don't want to hear their cr#p. Did anyone see the Grammy's last night?
Not one peep about politics. Just music. It was nice.
Steven King is a commie rat b@$tard.....
The only things I like that came from his pen was the movie version of ‘The Shining’(the Nicholson version, you know the good version) which he hated because of the movie treatment of his book....
....I also liked the movie by the meathead Rob Reiner, ‘Stand by Me’.
I have tried to read his books, but can not be lulled into suspending reality.
Also the Red Sox suck too.
What could they say? Their guy is in control and they won’t discuss his screw-ups and he hasn’t done anything praiseworthy.
For someone who travels, an e-book that is no harder on the eyes than a printed page, that is smaller and easier to pack than any hardcover or paperback, that has the latest titles available for half what paper costs, , on which I can carry reference materials, that doesn’t make you squint like an iPod or PDA and that has battery life orders of magnitude longer than a mobile computer would be invaluable.
I’m relatively sure I’ve saved the $300 purchase price for my Sony e-Book on discounted titles already. Of course, I read a lot more now - 3-4 books a week instead of just one or less.
I completely agree. Somewhere along the line he took a sharp left. His novels used to take a fairly neutral political stand, he treated both sides with equality. I don't remember the last new thing I read by him because I was so put off by his digs at conservatism in one of his books.
Is this a photo shopped picture?
does he really wear an Alfred Murrah federal building T-shirt.
I guess he didn’t believe the stories of the escaping middle eastern men....and is damning middle America.
what a $h!t.
I love my kindle! A laptop is too big if you travel, or even if you’re just sitting in your living room, and if you have ever tried to read a book on a PDA or a cellphone, you probably wouldn’t be urging it!
The Kindle feels like a book, it “turns pages” with dedicated keys and you can adjust the font size. You can get hundreds of books on one Kindle, if you like to have a lot of reads going at once, shopping for new ones is a breeze because the book wirelessly downloads in seconds (which is not true on any of the other devices), and you can get free samples sent to your device if you want to browse before buying.
My only complaint is that the publishers of liberal books seem to be better on releasing their stuff on Kindle. I’ve only been able to buy a couple of conservative books this way, and I hope publishers will wake up to the conservative market.
Well, I never said I liked Stephen King...
Ping
It is great for us compulsive readers who travel a lot!!! Dean Koontz is on Kindle so the Liberals don't have complete domination.
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