Give Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) credit for drumming up publicity. Today's Wall Street Journal reports (subscription required) that biographies of Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain will be available exclusively on Kindle, the company's hand-held reading device (because turning pages manually is clearly too much effort).The publisher is Pequot Press imprint Lyons Press, and as you can tell from the titles, this is pretty hard-hitting stuff: "Cindy McCain: Elegance, Good Will and Hope for a New America" and "Michelle Obama: Grace and Intelligence in a Time of Change."
I recommend waiting until the biography of the winner comes out in paperback, because at least then you'll be able to use it as a pillow for the well-deserved nap you take after reading the first five pages.
If this is the best Kindle can do for exclusives, it doesn't speak well for Amazon's ability to convince publishers that digital distribution is the future for books.
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
9-11-2008 @ 3:31PM
Michael Woods said...
We all know that Amazon is number one online sales distributor. Recently they pulled the plug on small publishing companies no longer allowing them to sell books on Amazon, unless Amazon printed the books themselves. This put many struggling writers and small publishers out in the cold. It does not suprize me that Amazon would do anything to try and make more money. I will never buy anything from Amazon again
9-15-2008 @ 3:34AM
harry said...
In year of 2009, amazon kindle will have new competitor device beside sony. So the price of e-book reading device will do down.