I’m generally not a Jon Stewart fan and cannot watch his show anyway because I do not subscribe to cable tv. However, I am pleased that he did not think the Kindle is a good value.
Gizmodo’s John Mahoney reports:
Jeff Bezos brought a Kindle 2 to the Daily Show last night, where Mr. Stewart lobbed some pretty hefty criticism at it. And all Bezos could do was laugh like a gassed hyena.
And I must say I’m with Jon here. E-book readers still have a long way to go before I see them providing any benefit at all over old-fasioned glue and paper, which as Stewart puts it are “comfortably low tech.” I want my shelves of books too.
…shock at the $359 price tag, which he was obviously well aware of: “Whoa, now that’s a lot. Is that gonna come down? That’s gotta come down.”
Instead of a hi-tech electronic book reading device, I recommend real books. There’s something nice about literally turning the page.