Nice to see some friendly competition. Check out the video below. The eBook Revolution is coming of age.

Jorgen dropped off a link to a ZDNet story about the quality of eBooks available for the Amazon Kindle. While I think the criticisms in the piece apply specifically to technical and graphic-dependent texts, they can be applied to the greater mainstream fiction titles as well. The ‘re-flowable’ text form that makes the Kindle (and other eBook readers) possible, also alters the look and navigability of traditional paper books. While I think this is a case of growing pains, it could suggest some urgency to eBook sellers, since the price of an eBook should reflect the quality of the product.

Jorgen added that the author of the post failed to mention: the Kindle typeface cannot be changed, the user interface leaves something to be desired and Kindle’s eBooks come in a proprietary format that cannot be read on other devices.

Here’s a Bloomberg BusinessWeek post that goes into some detail to show that the reports of Kindle’s death by iPad were greatly exaggerated.

It seems that the nay-saying tech-pundits were wrong. The marketplace can bear a dedicated eBook reading machine and a multi-function device for eBooks, movies, music and web surfing.

I just don’t understand why people start banging the drum for an either/or doomsday scenario. They keep trying to find the next betamax/videotape showdown, but it remains out of reach.