Some interesting Kindle related discussions, news, and posts -
- The Kindle 2′s parts costing $185 is the flavor of the day with hundreds of blogs and newspapers writing about it. All of them are assuming that WhisperNet is subsidized by the remaining amount. That’s just a completely wrong assumption. Not to mention the assumption that the components just assemble together magically and then sprout wings and fly to the homes of Kindle 2 buyers.
- Even disbelievers are hedging their bets about Kindle success -
wrote a while back that Amazon’s Kindle was no iPod. I still believe this is the case with a glaring caveat. The Amazon (AMZN) Kindle well may be a third of an Apple (AAPL) iPod in terms of success in the market.
Diving in, you suddenly realize what precipitated the change in opinion -
But overall, after getting my first Kindle this week, I was hugely impressed and now think it’s going to sell a lot more units than perhaps people (and stock analysts) really understand.
Aaha – that explains a lot.
- People are getting excited about a $100-$200 netbook from a company called Skytone that would run Android. Teleread thinks it’d be great as an ereader. I think the 7″ TFT LCD screen rules it out.
- Also, it would probably fail as a netbook because people are used to windows as their OS.
- And for all the talk of huge savings by not having Windows, Microsoft is rumored to sell XP at $15 per netbook.
- Yet another publisher sees increasing ebook sales (Penguin had seen a 7-fold increase) -
Explaining that e-book sales are growing faster than anticipated and that the company is being presented with more chances to make its content available either for sale or marketing, Simon & Schuster CEO Carolyn Reidy has named Mark Gompertz to the newly created position of executive v-p, digital publishing.
- iPhone 3.0 might have Voice Recognition and Text To Speech – the scoop at Ars Technica which need to find images that don’t shatter my state of zen.
- Sony claims success in the UK, sans evidence, -
the Sony Reader launch in the U.K. has been “very successful,” Dearing says, although Sony declines to say how many of the units it has sold.
- Domainer’s Magazine claims its the 27th magazine available for the Kindle – However, it only shows up under books. Just a temporary glitch, hopefully.
- Finally, someone is writing about environmental benefits of ebooks.
- Another environment-related, very well written, post with some surprising facts, such as -
42% of the global industrial wood harvest is used to make paper.
That’s all on the Kindle News front – hopefully in a few days people will stop writing about the $185 ‘cost’ and how Amazon is making a ton of money per kindle 2 sold.
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