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Originally Posted by HarryT
Nice article; there's a lot of truth in what he says, which is that Amazon are selling a book buying and reading "system", not just a piece of hardware.
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Yep. The comparison with the Apple iPod and iTunes and the Apple music store is well taken. It's why Sony has an uphill battle competing with the Kindle: they had to create the rest of the ecosystem to provide content the user could read on the Sony Reader.
And it illustrates a difference between the approaches. Sony is selling hardware. Amazon is selling content, and its greatest strength is the enormous amount of content it has, and the extreme ease of
getting that content.
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Dennis