Thread: Exclusive: Amazon Kindle 2 official images + price + release date
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Old 02-07-2009, 03:18 PM   #111
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Originally Posted by Alisa View Post
The impression I'm getting here is that very few of us K1 owners are planning on upgrading any time soon. As long as my Kindle holds out, I plan on having my next purchase be a large-format reader.
For me the primary advantage of the Kindle is the Kindle store, and I have not seen any additional advantage (yet) for the Kindle 2. We can complain about its deficiencies (folders?), but the Kindle 1 software is remarkably polished for a first attempt. I wonder what the Kindle 2 software will have we don't know about yet.

Even if the 500K estimate is high, there have to be 10's to 100's of thousands of Kindles out there, and I think the point is that Amazon wants to make it easy for those customers to upgrade to a Kindle 2 (vs a non-Kindle) and to make money out of the process, i.e. to take a cut of your Kindle 1 sale.
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