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Books I Want to Read On My Kindle But Can't

Last night I was in the mood for a new book. So I hopped online to see what I could see...and there wasn't much there.

Here are the books I want to read:

The Yiddish Policeman's Union

Infinite Jest

Madame de Pompadour

The Unruly Queen

Piaf: A Passionate Life

 

Of those books, here are the ones that are available for the Kindle:

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Yes, I could click on the "I'd like to read this on my Kindle", but after 5 times, it gets to be an act of despair, not an act of hope. 

The backlist really is the lifeblood of a publisher. The same is true of movie studios, record labels - last night, after this futile exercise, I went onto Netflix to look at what I could "Play Now" on my computer. Again I was faced with a paucity of content. And of course, this has been true of iTunes for a very long time.

New technologies are launching without sufficient content to deliver. So now content providers are in a game of catch-up, which of course was true when the CD first came out, and the DVD. Could we just get our content into a platform-neutral form so that it can be delivered to us however, whenever, wherever we want it?

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