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Harris —. It seems to me to have lost something of its soul with this change, though; the Kindle 4 and its successors reminded me more of budget tablets of years past rather than a brand new device. The solution, a network of infrared blasters and sensors that could only tell roughly where you put your finger, was a stopgap measure.

We used that IR window until we got the frontlight working, because that would burn away that sepia layer. The frontlight was already well under way, and would be announced in the form of the Kindle Paperwhite. I saw a prototype several months before that, and it turns out Amazon had quietly acquired a company in called Oy Modilis that specialized in light-guiding films like those used in the Paperwhite. At the time, having taken care of even lighting, the designers were mostly worried about color temperature.

The warmth of a tungsten bulb or flame illuminating a creamy page and ink-black naturally text is very difficult to replicate, and at the time they had to settle for something quite a bit colder, color-wise. But Kindle has never gone the way Kobo did, adding a user-selectable color temperature setting.

The team opted to keep things simple, Green said. In the Kindle line split again, adding the Voyage to the mix. In service of streamlining the device further it was decided to add an invisible alternative to tapping the screen to advance the page. When the search division moved to the former offices of a Palo Alto law firm, Lab moved with them and took up residence in the old law library. Stone reports that Lab was eventually given nearly unlimited resources.

It also had to contend with the unfettered imagination of Bezos. Nothing like that had been tried before. Bezos insisted that customers should never have to know the wireless connection was there or even pay for access. Stone reports that the effort to develop the first Kindle took more than three years. Nearly everything went wrong. The black-and-white displays from E Ink, an offshoot of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab that makes screens resembling the printed page and requiring very little power, would look good for one month and then degrade alarmingly.

The Lab team repeatedly urged Bezos to make their project easier by considering a Wi-Fi-only connection for the Kindle. That original Kindle finally went on sale in the fall of Still, Amazon nearly blew it.

Turow would be better-off starting from this assumption when lobbying on behalf of his members. Certainly, what seems like disruption to us in the industry, has already become status-quo to many of our customers. Some of the better successes over the past few years in countering Amazon has been the fight for them to pay sales tax—a campaign taking place both in the US and Europe.

This is the kind of thing people and governments can get behind.