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Originally Posted by MarkRPenn
Great, but the minute the Kindle hits Europe, that'll kill any head start the iLiad has.
I desperately want more and more content, especially newspapers, but this is my point; the success of the iLiad depends on iRex taking advantage of it's USP - the fact that you can write on it. They CANNOT fight off Amazon simply by making a couple of newspapers available. They mustn't ignore content; they have to keep up, but they should play to their strengths. Faced with the Kindle, content delivery will never be one of iRex' USP's, and they won't succeed based on that alone.
Mark
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sure, but as noted multiple times already (as well as just observable in academia): writing and annotating is something that only very few people apart from scholars (and to a lesser extent students) do.
that said, amazon doesn't have a dutch branch (yet) (i'm not sure why, probably because book prices are fixed here to "support" new "talent", and as such are nonnegotiable (the prices are fixed by law, depending on # of pages and the kind of cover)), so the iLiad still has some time to catch on.. the bad (compared to kindle) battery life of the iLiad annoys me, though.