Amazon’s New E-Books: No Kindle Required?
Fri, Feb 6th, 2009 |
Kindle fans like to describe Amazon’s e-book reader as the "iPod of the Book World". The counter-argument is that such a thing already exists, and that Apple already makes it: The iPhone, which offers plenty of apps that let you download and read books on the go.
Now the line between the two devices is about to get blurrier: Amazon (AMZN), which is set to introduce a new version of the Kindle on Monday, is also preparing to sell books that will work on other, unnamed mobile phones.
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Just came across your blog on Google. Interesting post, you bring up a few good things to think about. Good luck with the blog.
They should have done this earlier. It only opens their ebooks to more markets, more sales and of course more profits.