Trendy Digital’s Waterguard waterproof case for the Kindle 2 is pretty cool, especially now that summer and the beaches are around the corner. There are two models of the kindle waterguard cases – The TD019 Kindle 2 waterproof case which has been available since April 13th. It shows and mentions an adjustable strap that lets you [...]
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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 [...]
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Kindle 2 costs $185 to make iSuppli did a teardown of the Kindle 2 - They claim the total price of the components is $185. The screen costs around $60. Details are scanty. They do not include the licensing costs for using the ARM processor. Here is a snippet of their main pic - The [...]
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Kindle 2 Review Numbers don’t Measure Up Let’s assume TechCrunch is right and 300K Kindle 2s have been sold. At Amazon there are, as of April 21st 7:35 pm PST, 2,791 Kindle 2 reviews. This leads to some really interesting numbers – Less than 1 out of every 100 Kindle 2 owners is leaving a review. That’s 0.93% of owners [...]
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This Reuters UK article talks about Penguin becoming the first International Publisher to sign an electronic book deal in China (for books in English). However, the real news is the trends Penguin are seeing with their ebook sales – Penguin’s ebook sales in the first 3 months of 2009 are up 7 times as compared to the first [...]
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