Marco Arment:
In the past, I’ve always recommended the Kindle over other e-ink readers, and buying Kindle books instead of iBooks on iOS, because Amazon had the biggest library of relevant titles and strongest content ecosystem.
But Amazon’s advantage is no longer as clear in my casual searching.
I just buy from iTunes. Apps, music, books, movies, videos, TV shows. Everything. Convenience rules.
I buy from Barnes and Noble because I like the look of the Mac reader, and I like to be able to support my local brick and mortar store. Unfortunately, the only way that I can do that is by buying gift cards locally and redeeming them online.
Funny how time marches on like this. I remember when you’d go to independent bookstores to support Meg Ryan against Tom Hanks. But now Tom Hanks needs to be rescued from Noah Wylie and (insert guy who might play Jeff Bezos in a movie).
I agree with you, Jim. We’re exclusively iTunes, too.
Just bought my third Apple TV. Sweet, trouble-free device with a handsome remote.
And when you add that many authors don’t like Amazon because their lack of accuracy of their OCR and reluctance to put time into editing the far from perfect results, and I see lots of reasons to not go Kindle. I want to read what authors wrote, not what some OCR software though it was.
I tend to buy my MP3s from Amazon because they’re just so much cheaper then iTunes. New music tends to be at least a couple of bucks less per album and Amazon has sales pretty frequently. I wish iTunes would be more price competitive.