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Old 10-10-2007, 03:12 PM   #35
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Originally Posted by simple dave View Post
How do we know they are going to announce it at the fair?

Myself I have a very weird suspicion that Amazon are about to kill the ebook reader market with an ugly looking reader, no publicity at all and locking the device to a specific format (azw) that nobody heard about. After that they will be able to say: See I told you that ebook thing won't catch. Now we can go back to selling real books!!!

....Or maybe my brain is dying starvation and lack of info on the kindle.
Two points:

Many titles they currently sell as e-documents can be found in the Google cache as also being offered in "Kindle edition".

Amazon is actually scheduled to do two presentations. The one today sounded like an industry presentation targeted at publishers. The one on Friday is described:

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This presentation will introduce you to Amazon’s current digital offerings and latest developments and show you how you can work with Amazon to increase the exposure and sale of your books.
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