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Is the new Kindle the device that will finally make e-books mainstream, converting real book-lovers to reading in a digital format?
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But I'm going to ignore the findings of my focus group - and stick by my belief that Amazon's device has a better chance of transforming the publishing industry than Apple's.
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I think converting people to ebooks and transforming the publishing industry are two separate things.
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In a recent post [an author] says that Amazon's platform is many times more important to him than Apple's new online book store: "I sell 200 ebooks a day on Kindle. On iPad, I sell 100 a month."
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Well DUH. The iPad hasn't been out very long, and Kindle books can be read on a variety of devices.