All entries tagged: Jeff Bezos

Jeff Bezos pushes “competition” for Kindle hardware

As I’ve argued before, I think the Kindle’s success will be in providing a format and momentum for distributing books electronically — not in selling Amazon’s actual hardware devices, which I’d wager will never gain iPod-like market penetration. (I think it’ll lose out to multifunction devices like the mythical Apple tablet and to cell phones [...]

7 comments | Posted by Joshua Benton | June 16, 2009 | 1:49 pm

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The Kindle DX won’t save the news industry, but that’s not the point: a guide to our coverage of e-readers

Amazon just unveiled a bigger, more expensive version of the Kindle that will, depending on whom you ask, “rescue newspapers” or just create “false hope.”
Though details weren’t immediately available, the new, $489 Kindle DX will be available at a subsidized price for those who buy digital subscriptions to The New York Times, Washington Post, [...]

8 comments | Posted by Zachary M. Seward | May 6, 2009 | 12:10 pm

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