eBooks are on trial once again. This time, they represent nothing short of an existential threat to democracy itself. In the prosecutor’s corner we have novelist Jonathan Franzen, playing the role of ‘bookservative’ and decrying the rise of these anti-democratic digital tomes. “Maybe nobody will care about printed books 50 years from now, but I [...]
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by Erik Kain on January 23, 2012
Digital books, streaming music, apps that allow people to compare prices at brick-and-mortar stores with the price on The more we talk about these things, the more I feel like we’re having the same conversation over and over again with a slightly new twist each time: how to think about the future and the co-evolution [...]
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With the launch of a new library service, Amazon is changing the e-book market forever. If you happen to own a Kindle and if you belong to Amazon’s Prime service, you’re in luck. Not only will the $79/year service get you free 2-day shipping and access to thousands of streaming movies and television shows at [...]
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by Erik Kain on September 28, 2011
Amazon’s release of a cheap, $79 Kindle, a $99 Kindle Reader, and a $199 full-color tablet – the Kindle Fire – is nothing short of an all out assault on Apple. Top this off with Amazon’s cloud storage, the ridiculously cheap Amazon Prime service ($79/year gets you cloud storage, free 2-day shipping, and a bunch [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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