RE: future of the Amazon Kindle

No, I tend to agree.
 
I wasn't paying much attention to the Gemstar but Amazon has the clout to make this work. And the fact that Sony is still in the game along with Booken and iRex says we will more than likely continue to have e-book reading devices for a long time to come.
 
Which is really, really good for every e-book publisher like myself and every author :)
Aaron J. WalkerPublisher
Walk Broad Publishing


To: ebook-community-hHKSG33Tihig7M29m/[email protected]: [email protected]: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 03:41:39 +0000Subject: [ebook-community] future of the Amazon Kindle




A couple of days ago news reports quoted a letter extolling the Kindle that Jeff Bezos had just sent to Amazon shareholders. As a longtime ebook publisher who remembers the demise of previous ebook reading devices, particularly the Gemstar models, certainly one of my questions when the Kindle was announced was whether it would have longevity or not, especially since it relies on a proprietary ebook format and got some extremely negative initial reviews.Granting that Jeff Bezos may be overoptimistic about the long-term market for the Kindle and overstate its virtues, I infer from the fact that he sent this letter to shareholders that Amazon isn't seeing anything in the way of slackening demand, technical issues, or customer returns that would lead it to reconsider its commitment to the Kind
 le in the near term and write it off as a failed experiment, otherwise he would be deemphasizing it rather than showcasing it.At this point it appears to me that the Kindle is becoming established in the market and will be around for years to come. Anyone have good arguments to the contrary?John LandahlInfoStrategist.comSeattle, WA 






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