[bksvol-discuss] Re: OT More Abouth the Kindle

  • From: "Gary Petraccaro" <garyp130@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 03:30:11 -0500

I don't see the difference between access to a Kindle's book via spoken output and access via BookShare. I'd be curious to see if Random House were cooperating in the PQ book program.


----- Original Message ----- From: "Monica Willyard" <rhyami@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 7:38 PM
Subject: [bksvol-discuss] Re: OT More Abouth the Kindle


This is such a tough issue. I feel frozen out by the Kindle, and yet I know
Amazon was under a great deal of pressure too. I'm not happy with Amazon's
choice. I am more angry with the publishers and the Author's Guild than at
Amazon though. I think the ACB should be suing the Author's Guild as well as
the universities. The Author's Guild has more direct control over this
situation. They might settle out of court by providing all Kindle content to
Bookshare in its e-pub format to make the negative press go away. The
universities can't do that. They don't have the authority. All they can do
is stop buying Kindles. That won't get us what we want, access to the books.
It's just going to annoy faculty and students without fixing the root
problem.

I will be happy if the publishers make their books available to Bookshare.
Then I won't care what Amazon does with their Kindle. It will be irrelevant
to me, just like digital cameras.

I still shop at Amazon. I don't see them as being particularly negative.
They're in business. They have to keep their suppliers happy, or they lose
business. It's a fact of life when money is involved. I've already figured
out that I'm small potatoes compared to losing the Random House product line and the sales coming from it. Were I in a similar place, if I had to choose between losing 100 customers or losing a supplier and 10,000 customers, I'm going to let the 100 customers go. I'll be able to work on regaining some of the 100 customers later. And yes, that's cold, and it sucks. In no way is it
fair.


Monica Willyard
"The best way to predict the future is to create it." -- Peter Drucker

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