wow, Amazon finally managed to get the ugly out of the Kindle. That is a nice lookign design; especially with 70% less bezel.
At $139, that is almost an impulse buy... in fact, I almost "impulse bought", until I saw the 27 Aug delivery date. After my vacation, after school starts (I teach, not learn); I guess I can wait a few months and see what I feel then. Anotehr kindle based reader around the house would be nice. My reading on my ipad is constantly interrupted by the 8yo and 4yo "my turn" requests.
I am very sure that they wouldn't try to steal the kindle reader from me. And at $140, if my wife did, I could always get another.
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Originally Posted by charleski
Bezos needs to start treating the public with some respect and stop spinning the truth. The Kindle is mobi-only because he wants to lock people in to the Amazon ecosystem.
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Amazon is smart. I always shop the amazon ebook store first because of the convenience factor. If the epub format could be easily pushed to a kindle reader, then I would have no motivation to shop there vs B&N or elsewhere. They might rope in a few more customers who are hard-core epub compatible reader types, but I strongly suspect that they would lose more ebook sales then they would gain.
Why does the retailer with the largest ebook sales have to match the format of retailers who are all tied for a very distant third place? That doesn't make good fiscal sense.