Thread: E-book hardware rant at The Reg
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Old 04-20-2012, 03:36 PM   #10
Andrew H.
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The article was thought provoking in the sense that I wondered what the writer was on.

The odd focus on new hardware seems to have completely missed why Kindle has come to dominate the market. And why B&N jumped up to second in the US. *Hardware* has little to do with it.

And this quote:
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While Amazon's enormous success in retail has given it the financial clout to develop a near-perfect e-book ownership experience - if you ignore the dopey .MOBI file format - it is surely not beyond the capacity of smaller organisations to do something similar. It might have been rocket science when Amazon first devised the Kindle devices and Kindle store, but today it's more like basic maths: eReader + Wi-Fi + cloud.
is just profoundly stupid.
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