Howard Brazee

I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.

I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?



It only runs on select browsers.
https://read.amazon.com/?ref_=pe_167200_20735810

Lloyd E Parsons

On 8/25/11 8:15 AM, Howard Brazee wrote:
> I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
> reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.
>
> I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
> instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?
>
>
>
> It only runs on select browsers.
> https://read.amazon.com/?ref_=pe_167200_20735810
>
>
I looked at it and I don't like it at all. The only way I would use it
was if I had no other way to read an ebook from Amazon.

--
Lloyd

Bert

In news:kgic57d3e6446dksrguvlcri2d451lo765@4ax.com Howard Brazee
<howard@brazee.net> wrote:

> I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
> reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.
>
> I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
> instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?

Well, let's see...

1. It's slower.
2. You need a network connection of some sort.
3. You can only read the books that you've paid for.
4. They get to keep close track of your reading habbits.

Can anybody else think of any more advantages?

--
bert@iphouse.com St. Paul, MN

Todd Allcock

At 25 Aug 2011 07:15:11 -0600 Howard Brazee wrote:
> I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
> reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.
>
> I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
> instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?

Maybe Apple can't stop them from selling you new books in the cloud
reader?

Todd Allcock

At 25 Aug 2011 13:25:23 +0000 Bert wrote:
> In news:kgic57d3e6446dksrguvlcri2d451lo765@4ax.com Howard Brazee
> <howard@brazee.net> wrote:
>
> > I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
> > reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.
> >
> > I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
> > instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?
>
> Well, let's see...
>
> 1. It's slower.
> 2. You need a network connection of some sort.
> 3. You can only read the books that you've paid for.
> 4. They get to keep close track of your reading habbits.
>
> Can anybody else think of any more advantages?


Kidding aside, this is designed for when or where there's no possibility
of using a Kindle app. (A friend's computer, the library, an internet
cafe, etc.) Or for a platform with an HTML5 browser but no Kindle app
(Google Chrome OS, perhaps?)

I look at it like Google Docs or Office Live; normally I'd rather stick a
fork in my eye than use an online document editor, but if that's all
that's available...

Howard Brazee

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:52:09 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

>Kidding aside, this is designed for when or where there's no possibility
>of using a Kindle app. (A friend's computer, the library, an internet
>cafe, etc.) Or for a platform with an HTML5 browser but no Kindle app
>(Google Chrome OS, perhaps?)

I infer that it may be just instructions on how to access it from
Safari? If it's a Safari add-on, then I'm not going to be changing
someone else's Safari on his iPad.

But if it's my iPad, then I will use the Kindle app.


--
"In no part of the constitution is more wisdom to be found,
than in the clause which confides the question of war or peace
to the legislature, and not to the executive department."

- James Madison

BreadWithSpam@fractious.net

Todd Allcock <elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> writes:
> At 25 Aug 2011 07:15:11 -0600 Howard Brazee wrote:

[Kindle Cloud Reader in Safari]
>> I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
>> instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?
>
> Maybe Apple can't stop them from selling you new books in the cloud
> reader?

That's one of the reasons. The other is in case you want to
read your books on a computer, perhaps one which isn't yours,
on which you will not be installing new software.

--
Plain Bread alone for e-mail, thanks. The rest gets trashed.

AJL

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:15:11 -0600, Howard Brazee <howard@brazee.net>
wrote:

>I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
>reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.
>
>I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
>instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?

Apple recently made Amazon take the link (and the ability) to directly
access the Amazon book store out of the Kindle app. To keep the link
Amazon would have been required to fork over 30% of any book sales to
Apple. This new cloud reader is Amazon's way of sticking it to Apple.
You can now read your Kindle books in the Safari browser and also have
access to the Amazon book store. Apple gets nada...

AJL

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 08:21:55 -0500, Lloyd E Parsons
<lloydparsons@mac.com> wrote:

>On 8/25/11 8:15 AM, Howard Brazee wrote:
>> I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
>> reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.
>>
>> I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
>> instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?
>>
>>
>>
>> It only runs on select browsers.
>> https://read.amazon.com/?ref_=pe_167200_20735810
>>
>>
>I looked at it and I don't like it at all. The only way I would use it
>was if I had no other way to read an ebook from Amazon.

Yep, and it's just as easy to turn on your Droid or plastic Kindle and
buy directly from there...

AJL

On Thu, 25 Aug 2011 07:43:02 -0600, Todd Allcock
<elecconnec@AnoOspamL.com> wrote:

>At 25 Aug 2011 07:15:11 -0600 Howard Brazee wrote:
>> I just got an e-mail from Amazon telling me about the Kindle cloud
>> reader that runs on Safari on the iPad.
>>
>> I don't have any idea what advantage there would be for using that
>> instead of the Kindle app on my iPad. Does anybody else?
>
>Maybe Apple can't stop them from selling you new books in the cloud
>reader?

Actually Apple couldn't stop them before. It's just that you no longer
had a nice button/link from inside the Kindle app to open Safari at
the Amazon book store. You actually had to open Safari yourself and
punch in the Amazon URL. After that it was the same as before.