The two biggest questions that have been circulating recently are
- Will Kindle 2.0 be released this year? In time for whatever minimal christmas shopping boom we see?
- The leaked Kindle Pictures by BGR – are they real? If yes, why isn’t Kindle 2.0 sexy?
Another big item – J. Gerry Purdy has a well written article and he sees electronic book readers gaining 75% adoption once they hit the right feature set.
Here are some other Kindle related items that might interest you -
- IHT Readers has an interesting article – Newsweek will publish a book each about Senators John McCain, Barack Obama and Joseph Biden, and Governor Sarah Palin — available only for the Kindle.
- At the Franfurt Book Fair (the world’s biggest book publishing gathering) – the spectre of the digital future causing worries.
- Phil Gutis on cancelling his NYTimes subscription.
- As a bonus – here’s a FT article on pricing concerns publishers have for ebooks.
BTW there were a bunch of articles on how Stanza for iphone had 300K free downloads and people were reading free books using it, and that this makes it a bigger success than the Kindle – I’m not even going to dignify that piece of journalism (or lack thereof) with a response.
And finally, Jeff Bezos -
In Seattle, meanwhile, Amazon Chief Executive Jeff Bezos says that after years of failed experimentation, third-party vendors — the foundation on which eBay was built — now account for about 29 percent of sales on Amazon. The company has endured and outlasted critics who long complained about its high fixed costs.
Last year, it impressed investors with accelerating growth, and its stock price revisited the highs of the dot-com boom, before waning euphoria and market pessimism erased more than half of those gains this year. Bezos credits Amazon’s tolerance for risky, expensive bets such as the Kindle electronic reading device.
“Our willingness to be misunderstood, our long-term orientation and our willingness to repeatedly fail are the three parts of our culture that make doing this kind of thing possible,” he said.
Reminds me of this article that mentioned that the two true visionaries in tech were Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, and that Jeff Bezos was one of the candidates to take a spot among them.
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