As we’ve been following the launch of the Amazon Kindle here at Lost Remote, here’s an interesting post on the NYT Bits Blog that defends the Kindle against a blogosphere backlash. “A lot of people are writing off Amazon’s Kindle book reader much too quickly,” writes Saul Hansell. Clearly not the reaction Amazon was looking for when it fussed and fretted over the launch for a year. Meanwhile, with a significantly smaller buzz-building campaign, two combatants in the e-publishing world, magazine maker Zinio and rival Texterity, have both bowed e-reader software for the iPod Touch and iPhone, which we all recall had one of the greatest launches in consumer electronics history.
Also: Jeff Bezos interview on Charlie Rose (thanks discreet_chaos!)


