We're serializing an excerpt from Jason Merkoski's Burning the Page: The eBook revolution and the future of
reading. Merkoski was an early innovator on Amazon's Kindle team, and his
new book discusses how ebooks came to be, as well as where they're going. This
excerpt is about the inside story of the Kindle:
Working at Amazon was like taking a step back in time to Seattle’s pioneer roots, back when Seattle was the gateway to the Yukon gold rush. Working on the Kindle was like living in the Wild West.
For projects that broke new ground, like the Kindle, there didn’t seem to be any law, any sheriff, or any real consequences for making wrong decisions, because nobody knew the right ones. Continue reading...
Working at Amazon was like taking a step back in time to Seattle’s pioneer roots, back when Seattle was the gateway to the Yukon gold rush. Working on the Kindle was like living in the Wild West.
For projects that broke new ground, like the Kindle, there didn’t seem to be any law, any sheriff, or any real consequences for making wrong decisions, because nobody knew the right ones. Continue reading...
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