Re: BOOKS: ELECTRONIC : ELECTRONIC EQUIPMENT AND DEVICES : MARKET : BUSINESS : SALES AND SELLING: Dedicated E-Readers Will Be Dead in a Year, If Not Sooner

I hope and believe you are wrong. I don't thank the iPad will cause mass migrations any more than the iPod did. Nor will it be all things to all people. Personally, I don't want an iPad. or an iPod. So I guess we'll just have to wait and see. Respectfully...

In God We Trust.

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BOOKS: ELECTRONIC :

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SALES AND SELLING:

Dedicated E-Readers Will Be Dead in a Year, If Not Sooner



Dedicated E-Readers Will Be Dead in a Year, If Not Sooner

Amazon and Barnes & Noble may have started a price war, but it's 

pointless: Dedicated e-readers will be dead within a year.

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols 

ITworld

Jun 21, 2010 5:22 pm

PC World 

<http://www.pcworld.com/article/199429/dedicated_

ereaders_will_be_dead_in_a_year_if_not_sooner.html?tk=hp_new>



A shorter URL for the above link:



<http://tinyurl.com/2codtpb>



Barnes & Noble just launched a new Wi-Fi only version of the Nook for $149 

and cut the price of the original, with both Wi-Fi and 3G from $259 to 

$199. Whoops! And, what's this? I no sooner finish this blog and Amazon 

drops the bottom-line Kindle's price to $189. That's great, right? Wrong. 

It's actually just postponing the end of all dedicated e-readers.



As it happens, I like e-readers in general. And, I like the Nook and 

Amazon's Kindle. So why am I unimpressed by this price-cut? I'm unmoved 

because I don't think there's a chance in heck that dedicated e-reader 

devices will still be around, except as vastly discounted electronic toys 

by 2011's holiday season.



My reasoning is quite simple. Everything a Nook or a Kindle can do an 

Apple iPad can do better. And, what's far more important, an iPad can do 

far, far more.



<snip>



Apple iPad Showdown: Battle of the eReader Apps

By Jason Perlow | June 18, 2010, 5:03pm PDT

ZDNet 

<http://www.zdnet.com/blog/perlow/

apple-ipad-showdown-battle-of-the-ereader-apps/13248>



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Since the iPads introduction earlier this year, it has quickly become one 

of the most popular platforms for reading eBooks, simply due to the 

variety of content providers which have provided applications for the 

device.



However, the average iPad user may not be aware of features or limitations 

in the various e-Reader apps available on the App Store, so Im going to 

try to boil this down so that you can make the appropriate choices which 

best fit your reading lifestyle.



<snip>



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