Apple dominates online music downloading, and Amazon has virtually no chance of catching up to them without releasing dedicated hardware in an increasingly competitive market. Instead, Amazon is tackling a nascent industry: e-book. By all means it is not something new (after all Sony has been selling its dedicated e-book reader for the past few years). However the Amazon Kindle device is different by removing computers from the equation.
All Kindle devices comes with EVDO network access for FREE which means you can download new books, virtually anywhere as long as you can get Sprint’s sweet EVDO signal. At $399, it is definitely expensiver than buying books but Kindle gives you access to over 88,000 books including 100 of the 112 New York Times best sellers. You can also subscribe to newspapers at between $5.99 and $14.99 per month, and new content will be automatically downloaded to your device.
Time will tell if anybody will be interested in Kindle, but its features definitely improve upon regular old books. After all, you can’t search your books, and you can’t carry 200 books in your bag with you everywhere…
November 19th, 2007 at 11:43 am
hm. nice service. i think, it’ll have some success.