{"id":6666,"date":"2010-09-14T14:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6666"},"modified":"2010-09-14T14:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-09-14T19:40:14","slug":"kindle-quality-issues-raised-at-zdnet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6666","title":{"rendered":"Kindle Quality Issues Raised at ZDNet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> dropped off a link to a <strong><a title=\"Growing Pains for the Kindle\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\/blog\/hardware\/the-problem-with-kindle-app-ebooks\/9678\" target=\"_self\">ZDNet story<\/a><\/strong> about the quality of eBooks available for the <strong>Amazon<\/strong> <strong>Kindle<\/strong>. While I think the criticisms in the piece apply specifically to technical and graphic-dependent texts, they can be applied to the\u00c2\u00a0greater mainstream fiction titles as well. The &#8216;re-flowable&#8217; 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.<\/p>\n<p>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&#8217;s eBooks come in a proprietary format that cannot be read on other devices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u00c2\u00a0greater mainstream fiction titles as well. The &#8216;re-flowable&#8217; text form that makes the Kindle (and other &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=6666\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12,15,14,16],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6666"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6686,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6666\/revisions\/6686"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}