Amazon listens
February 9th 2011 02:51
In a roundabout way we recently acquired a Kindle. (When I say 'we' I specifically mean my wife.)
Kindle ain't the most beautiful piece of technology on the planet. It has a kind of gray feel about it, as if the sun had permanently gone behind the clouds. However, it does the job, and I guess that's mostly what you can ask of a machine.
One of the complaints about it has been the lack of real page numbers (that is, page numbers corresponding to the original book) - Alan Jacobs was talking about it just the other day on his blog, in fact.
Here's what Amazon have just done:
Our customers have told us they want real page numbers that match the page numbers in print books so they can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class. Rather than add page numbers that don't correspond to print books, which is how page numbers have been added to e-books in the past, we're adding real page numbers that correspond directly to a book's print edition. We've already added real page numbers to tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and thousands more of the most popular books. Page numbers will also be available on our free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle apps in the coming months.
Well, there you go. Amazon listens.
Kindle ain't the most beautiful piece of technology on the planet. It has a kind of gray feel about it, as if the sun had permanently gone behind the clouds. However, it does the job, and I guess that's mostly what you can ask of a machine.
One of the complaints about it has been the lack of real page numbers (that is, page numbers corresponding to the original book) - Alan Jacobs was talking about it just the other day on his blog, in fact.
Here's what Amazon have just done:
Our customers have told us they want real page numbers that match the page numbers in print books so they can easily reference and cite passages, and read alongside others in a book club or class. Rather than add page numbers that don't correspond to print books, which is how page numbers have been added to e-books in the past, we're adding real page numbers that correspond directly to a book's print edition. We've already added real page numbers to tens of thousands of Kindle books, including the top 100 bestselling books in the Kindle Store that have matching print editions and thousands more of the most popular books. Page numbers will also be available on our free "Buy Once, Read Everywhere" Kindle apps in the coming months.
Well, there you go. Amazon listens.
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