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I’ve got to say that I love the idea of a marketplace for short, digestible content that is only as long as it needs to be. I just downloaded two Singles in anticipation of an upcoming plane flight. Update (2011-01-28): Plane trip is completed, and I really enjoyed both of the Singles I read: Homo [...]
Amazon’s strategy is as sensible as any I can think of for the Kindle–make it more like a book and even less like an iPad, thereby catering to all the folks who want the equivalent of a relatively cheap, highly portable digital paperback rather than the costlier do-it-all device that is Apple’s tablet. For all [...]
The New York Times published an article yesterday which tells you just about everything you need to know about the state of the Kindlesphere. On e-book sales: Amazon.com, one of the nation’s largest booksellers, announced Monday that for the last three months, sales of books for its e-reader, the Kindle, outnumbered sales of hardcover books. In [...]
Newsweek recently published a great interview with Jeff Bezos in which he talks about the Kindle’s success, Amazon’s business philosophy, how Kindle fits with the rumored Apple tablet, and more. I could have easily plucked a half dozen quotes from it. You should definitely check it out.