Apart from the nice looking e-ink display and the apprently correct design (though not awesome, the keyboard is really tacky) what really is genius in Amazon’s Kindle resides in this discreet excerpt from Amazon’s sale pitch:
Unlike WiFi, you don’t have to find a hotspot. Amazon pays for Kindle’s wireless connectivity so you will never see [...]

Jammie Thomas, a 30-year-old single mother of two, has been ordered to pay $222,000 to the RIAA for sharing 24 tunes on Kazaa.
It’s absolutely outrageous, and I simply don’t understand how artists can silently let the RIAA sue their freakin’ fans!
Influent music artists trully have the responsibility to end this mess. They can’t hide any [...]

Digital media distribution is a great challenge, and Radiohead came these days with a pretty good idea: you can buy here the download version of their upcoming album at the price you want.
Good UXP can be build upon such an approach, but it is not exactly what a Sony-BMG told before the court in Duluth [...]

A few days ago I was chatting in a sun bathed terrasse of Petite Italie with a founder of DEP, one of the biggest music distributor in Canada. The conversation went passionate about music, P2P, sustainable culture, etc. These are old subjects of interests for me because I’m both a culture fan highly frustrated by [...]