Don’t understand the lack of a Kindle Repair Industry. Let’s look at the figures – It costs $180 to $200 to replace a broken kindle (my understanding of what Amazon charges). According to the iSuppli tear-down the screen costs $60. Amazon sells refurbished Kindles for $199. The existence of ‘refurbished kindles’ means that kindle repairs [...]
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Here’s my gut feeling on what we’ll see happen with the Kindle and eReaders in the next 6 months – August 2009 – Sony 900, 10″ Reader release. October 2009 – Apple Netbook/ eReader release. Kindle UK and Kindle Europe release. November 2009 – 2nd week – Kindle 3 release. 4th week – Kindle 3 sold [...]
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This post is inspired by an excellent post on Kindle and eBooks by Charles Pillsbury. The relevant part is - One problem with a musical analogy is that most musical artists don’t make the bulk of their money from the production and sale of records, but from their live performances. As with Radio, a musician can almost give away their [...]
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Here are the most interesting things happening in the Kindlesphere – Mr. Bezos posted an apology on behalf of Amazon at the Kindle Forum – Jeffrey P. Bezos says: This is an apology for the way we previously handled illegally sold copies of 1984 and other novels on Kindle. Our “solution” to the problem was stupid, thoughtless, [...]
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Ran across this ’1 star kindle review’ campaign being run by Defective By Design – This week’s Kindle action is going great; together we’ve generated hundreds of 1-star reviews and tags. If you haven’t written a review yet, here are direct links to the review forms. Take a few minutes to explain to potential Kindle buyers [...]
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