Ramblings of an Eccentric Soul...

"The margins for Kindle content are thin. Very thin. Apple runs its content business at break even though it transacts billions of items per month. The amount of content that needs to pass through the Kindle ecosystem (with lower prices than Apple charges) will need to be astronomical to make it profitable on the shortened cycle time the iPhone enjoys."

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Horace Dediu on the Kindle Fire’s $199 price and what it means for Amazon and market disruption. (via parislemon)

I can’t wait for this to come out and we actually get to see people use and then review it. Let’s hope the magic still continues post.

The Russians Used a Pencil: Thoughts on a Kindle Tablet

russianpencil:

This is by no means an “iPad Killer.” It wouldn’t play video, or graphically complex games. That’s not the point though. The point is to create a wonderful reading device, for ALL reading, not just books. It creates an interesting alternative for people who use an iPad primarily for reading. And I’d imagine many people would be happy to buy this new Kindle in addition to an iPad, as many already do with the current Kindle.

Amazon has the opportunity to make an awesome device for reading. I see it as a natural evolution of the Kindle. Why throw the baby out with the bathwater? If they created a device like I am suggesting above, I would be first in line to buy one.

Kindle for Mac

The only thing that I can say is that it’s better than having no client. It doesn’t feel like an OS X app at all. In fact, even the text rendering doesn’t feel native. =|

This makes it primely positioned for Apple to release an iBooks OSX client and just own this market.

Bezos: Color screened Kindle is "multiple years" away

jeffrock:

Shit.

I don’t get it. Why do you need colored screens on text? I realize that it’s for reading illustrated books, but then a book is way better for rendering it and not only that a laptop / a computer / a netbook would be better.

However, that said, these innovations are necessary to sway people in and out. The same reason why to show album art, the iPod became colourful =D!