Loads of interesting things happening in Kindle Land with a few Kindle 2 competitors making news, some interesting Kindle 2 analysis, and other goodness -
- I love how this bloggertalks about coming up with 20 clusters of similar thinking on twitter related to kindle, and then, amazingly only mentions 4 of them. Enough teasing Themos – let us know what the rest are.
- Fujitsu has started a trial of its Color eBookReader the Flepia in Japan – there are 4 Flepias being tested in a restaurant this week for people to use. It looks very colorful – .
- Plastic Logic announced that it has signed up content partners - Seriously, the fact that it’s going to be out in 2010 makes Plastic Logic much less of a Kindle 2 competitor. However their content partner list is interesting, as is this NY Times article discussing it -
Plastic Logic said it had struck deals with The Financial Times, the British business newspaper, and with LibreDigital, a content aggregator that offers electronic versions of The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and other publications on the Internet.
In addition, Plastic Logic said it would announce a “direct relationship” with USA Today.
Plastic Logic also has content relationships with Ingram Digital and Zinio, distributors of periodicals from such publishers as Hearst, IDG, Hachette Filipacchi, Playboy Enterprises and Ziff Davis
- Indigo Books is releasing an application for iPhone, BlackBerry and Android OS called ShortCovers. You can read the first chapter of 250,000 books for free. Only 50,000 books are available – however, for these full books, you can buy either a chapter (for $1 or so) or the whole book ($10 or so). Check out the video below or the article in the Globe & Mail. .
- Some speculation at the International Herald Tribune on potential roadblocks for an International Kindle 2.
The sheer amount of Kindle related news is overwhelming – There are somewhere between 1,500 and 2,000 news articles related to Kindle 2, Kindle 2 competitors, Text to Speech copyright issues, and other Kindle related topics.
Makes me wonder whether newspapers and blogs have the stamina to maintain Kindle 2 buzz through the Feb 24th release, and whether Feb 24th interest will be as high as it is now. If yes, then Amazon have figured out a great way to generate and maintain excitement around a Kindle Release, and look to see them duplicate this strategy with Kindle 3.
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Didn’t mean to tease but can’t disclose everything!. Here are some more similar “thought clusters” though :
1) Bad sentiment about the B/W screen
2) IPhone can do the same work better
3) A push to launch Kindle in other countries
4) Users cannot find how to download kindle books from Amazon website
Hope that helped!
Themos
thanks Themos – those are some interesting thought clusters. I wonder what would come up if you analysed Amazon Kindle Reviews (or Kindle 2 reviews when those started coming out).
Yes i am planning to do this in the next 15 days and i will let you know…please also note that the clustering analysis was only for 1054 tweets about Kindle.
I will repeat the analysis for a much larger sample and i will come back with some more teasing..