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The Kindle with the same sized screen COULDN'T compete with the iPad at only $10 cheaper. And had the 6" kindle stayed at $260 instead of dropping to $79, it's likely Amazon wouldn't have a quarter of the sales of Kindles that it's had.
But never was this about whether iBooks would dominate Amazon. Amazon has a kindle app on the iPad. It was about single function, and expensive, eInk devices verses multi-function tablets.
With prices of the eInk devices under $100....they are fairly safe from the $500 iPad.
Frankly, I thought it was the smartphone that would hurt the $260 eInk devices the most. I've been wrong, it appears, on how many folks would think reading on their phone was good enough. At $79, these eInk readers are a "both and" option, pretty much ending this debate.
Lee
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