It took them something like five years to implement “You have just completed the 2nd book in Game of Thrones. We have used Sophisticated Machine Learning to predict that there is a possibility, however slight, that your next book might be...”
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It’s also impossible to do even the most basic possible library management and/or searching by other than words, like “I want to give my friend a reading list about the financial crisis; show me all the books I’ve read about it.”
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Serious question: do you think that the economics of the market justify a startup trying to create a better e-reader? I am hoping desperately that your answer is yes...

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Beating Amazon on book distribution seems like a tall order.
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I think this is universal within Amazon. Fundamentally, I just don't think Amazon understand books at all. Their expertise is logistics, and they seem kinda embarrassed about the fact that they're also a book store.
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I suspect they made kindle deliberately awful when they realized it was more profitable to sell most of the paper books than almost all of the ebooks.
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The Kindle Fire Kids Edition is clearly made by people without children, while we're at it. e.g. you can set different time locks for weekday vs weekend, but it considers Friday night a weekday & Sunday night a weekend. No concept of "school night".
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Maybe AI is running Amazon, and since AI never had to go to school M-F, the concept is foreign to it?
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The Kobo interface, while not great, is way better than the kindle.
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