Comments on: Kindle gets the big O http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/10/24/kindle-gets-the-big-o/ Top Technology news Mon, 13 Feb 2012 11:40:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Errol Lincoln Uys http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/10/24/kindle-gets-the-big-o/comment-page-1/#comment-142819 Errol Lincoln Uys Sat, 25 Oct 2008 04:01:22 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/10/24/kindle-gets-the-big-o/#comment-142819 As an editor and writer who saw his first published story set in hot metal, I marvel at Amazon's Kindle reader and its role in the future of the "printed" word. I'm thrilled to see Oprah endorse Kindle! No traditional book can offer the interactive platform I've created for the Kindle edition of my novel Brazil or open the door to actively sharing the magic that goes into the making of a monumental novel. Linked to the e-text is a unique and free online guide with more than 200 images and illustrations, providing an indispensable companion on a fictional journey through five hundred years of Brazilian history. Preview the guide at my website: http://www.erroluys.com I've also linked the Kindle Illustrated Guide to Brazil to an archive of my working notes, plus a journal kept on a four-month 20,000-kilometer trek across Brazil. What better way for the reader-explorer of an epic as vast as Brazil to discover a totally new and original world beyond stereotypes of samba and Carnival! Were Gutenberg here to see the Kindle, he would have one word to say: "Bravo!" As an editor and writer who saw his first published story set in hot metal, I marvel at Amazon’s Kindle reader and its role in the future of the “printed” word.

I’m thrilled to see Oprah endorse Kindle!

No traditional book can offer the interactive platform I’ve created for the Kindle edition of my novel Brazil or open the door to actively sharing the magic that goes into the making of a monumental novel.

Linked to the e-text is a unique and free online guide with more than 200 images and illustrations, providing an indispensable companion on a fictional journey through five hundred years of Brazilian history.

Preview the guide at my website: http://www.erroluys.com

I’ve also linked the Kindle Illustrated Guide to Brazil to an archive of my working notes, plus a journal kept on a four-month 20,000-kilometer trek across Brazil. What better way for the reader-explorer of an epic as vast as Brazil to discover a totally new and original world beyond stereotypes of samba and Carnival!

Were Gutenberg here to see the Kindle, he would have one word to say: “Bravo!”

]]> By: Roger http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/10/24/kindle-gets-the-big-o/comment-page-1/#comment-142752 Roger Fri, 24 Oct 2008 19:53:12 +0000 http://tech.blorge.com/Structure:/2008/10/24/kindle-gets-the-big-o/#comment-142752 Got it. Vote for Obama, and buy a kindle. Thank you Oprah. Got it. Vote for Obama, and buy a kindle. Thank you Oprah.

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