Review device?

[wide_worlds_joy]

Anyone know who I can talk to so I can get a review Kindle for my site? I do reviews of print copies of metaphysical books (http://davensjournal.com), but if ebooks gain in popularity, some publishers may come up with ebooks of the same stuff. Thus having a review of a reading device might be a good thing to have.

I'd prefer a Kindle since I like what I see, several gig of storage, wireless and self contained. However if you want to suggest another device, I'm for it. But I would need to get one of them for free (please, please, please).

Comments

[ladyseishou]

No, just an Amazon account and the "Kindle" app is all you need to read Kindle books. There's a separate dropdown menu item to d/l the book wirelessly to the iDevice on the Kindle book page.

I know when the app was released that a lot of people were surprised that Amazon released the app. I wondered myself that Amazon wasn't worried about any impact it would have on sales of the Kindle but there you go... Maybe Amazon believes that there are two separate customer bases, one that reads exclusively from their iPhones/iTouches and those that like the Kindle (size of scree, etc).

[quivo]

I personally think that people who would read exclusively on the iPhone/Touch and people who would read only on the Kindle are distinct customer bases, and that the overlap will likely push people more toward buying the Kindle since content can live in both places.

That said, considering how locked down the iPhone platform is (e.g. try getting the books off the device without jailbreaking or unlocking), it's really not that huge a gamble. I think Amazon is hedging its hardware bet with a more software-dependent one. I mean, there's already some kind of shopping app they have out for the Blackberry. Who's to say that another Kindle app isn't hot on its heels for BBs? Or for the G1, or the Android platform?