Can Amazon's Kindle light a fire under the e-book market?
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| November 20, 2007 |  View for printing |
Amazon.com introduced a new portable reading device Monday that the online retail giant hopes will finally spark demand for electronic books.
By Dan Gallagher
MarketWatch
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Amazon Announced Kindle
By Guy Kawasaki
Today Amazon announced its foray into selling hardware with a data service. The device is called “Kindle,” and it represents a daring move for an “online bookstore.” You’re going to see two kinds of reviews: bad ones from people who haven’t used it and good ones from people who have. It’s that kind of product—plus Jeff Bezos’s reality-distortion field isn’t as large as Steve Jobs’s. I have used it and if someone gave me a choice of receiving an iPhone or a Kindle, I’d pick the Kindle. Here are the reasons I like it so much:
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No Coverage in Rural States! I bought a Kindle with high hopes. I live in Missoula, Montana, which is one of the largest cities in the state. It turns out that the wireless connectivity that the Kindle requires does NOT work in Montana. After several tech support calls they admitted that there is no coverage in Montana. There may also be no coverage in other states, such as Wyoming and Alaska. This means that the Service component of the device is useless to people in Montana. --Steve Saroff
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