Amazon Kindle 2 - making a great gadget even better

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4-16-2009 @ 8:26AM

Tom said...

Dear Scott,

I too love my Kindle - and yes, I sheepishly I have a perfectly fine Kindle I lying around because I ran right out and bought the Kindle II.

But I'm still confused why there is still one glaring omission from Kindle books that would make it great for travelers: there are almost no travel guides! True, Frommer's just came out with a cool 12-city guide, which I bought right away. But other than that, almost none of the major travel guide publishers have anything for Kindle. Do you know why travel publishers seem to be much slower than other major publishers in creating Kindle editions? I would think Kindle owners would be a natural audience for travel guide ebooks. I actually thought travel guides would have been among the first Kindle editions available. But obviously I'm missing something about the economics of publishing. Any thoughts?
Thanks! (In the meantime, I'm lugging lots of travel guides around with me - and every time I buy a new travel book on Amazon, I click the button to say I'd like to read this on Kindle.)

Best,
Tom

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