Re: why Apple won't build an ebook reader

Yes, Jobs has a point, especially in the context of Apple.  However, one might speculate 
that the Kindle will spur interest in reading.  And for Amazon, the Kindle is synergistic 
with their print books and Mobipocket in a way that an ebook reader would not be for 
Apple.  While it's certainly possible that no ebook reader will ever be a blockbuster device 
in the way the iPod has been, if the Kindle does turn out to be a niche-market product, 
that niche may in the end be a rather large one.

John Landahl
InfoStrategist.com
Seattle, WA

--- In [email protected], Bill Janssen <bill@...> wrote:
>
> In an interview with John Markoff of the New York Times, Steve Jobs
> talks about the Kindle:
> 
> ``Today he had a wide range of observations on the industry, including
> the Amazon Kindle book reader, which he said would go nowhere largely
> because Americans have stopped reading.''
> 
> ``"It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is, the fact is that
> people don't read anymore," he said. "Forty percent of the people in
> the U.S. read one book or less last year. The whole conception is
> flawed at the top because people don't read anymore."''
> 
> http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/15/the-passion-of-steve-jobs/index.html
> 
> Thanks to MacRumors.com for posting this.
> 
> Bill
>





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