So I’ve had the iPad for a little more than three weeks now. I posted my initial experiences with it here, but that was only after a day or two of use immediately after I got it. I wanted to follow up after the initial holy-crap-I-got-me-a-new-shiny! excitement wore off to provide a better idea of [...]
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Buy from Amazon Buy from Barnes & Noble 
Buy from Amazon Buy from Barnes & Noble 
Buy from Amazon Buy from Barnes & Noble |
Yes, I know I’ve been slobbering over this gadget the way John Scalzi slobbers over bacon (mmm, bacon …), and that I bought the thing on launch day even after I’d said I’d wait a while before diving in, so I’m hardly going to be considered an impartial source. I am, however, really and truly [...] Or nearly as much strain as your mom told you. I always thought LCDs with progressive scan output and fast refresh rates eliminated much of the concern about “TV being bad for your eyes,” like I was constantly told when I was a kid. I thought the old CRTs (tube televisions) were bad because they [...] The key component of the dust-up between Amazon and book publisher Macmillan (who has since been joined by Hachette Books and HarperCollins) is the pricing model used to sell electronic books. Amazon wants to set a fixed price with a fixed dollar amount going to the publishers. Publishers don’t like this because it cannibalizes their [...] I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the Kindle and iPad and what the latter’s introduction into the marketplace will do to the former. I talked about it a little bit in my post when the iPad was introduced, and in the comments section there. There is some understandable defensiveness from those who have purchased [...] |
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