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Originally Posted by rlauzon
Getting back to the Kindle, it offers absolutely no benefit over the other eBook readers on the market today, and is more expensive. Being able to rent eBooks for Amazon at an inflated price over paper is certainly not something that's going for the Kindle.
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I think that a lot of these discussions came from the completely flawed analogy of Kindle with the iPod.
When I think of the success of the iPod, I am pretty sure that by and large people buying it said: well I have (or know how to get) all these tons of mp3's and now here it's a cool machine playing them, and well once in a while I may buy a song from iTunes.
So the analogy would be: well I have (or know how to get) all these tons of (text based - non pdf) e-books and the Kindle looks like a cool/useful device to read them on, and once in a while I may buy a book at Amazon Kindle store.
So I do not think either EVDO or the Kindle store will really make that much of a difference for Kindle. Maybe the search capability and being faster than Sony are the more important characteristics, and ultimately it's there in intrinsic features (capabilities vs price) rather than in being associated with a e-book store where the failure or success will come.