The future of books lies in ebook readers one reason why so many players are stepping in the arena of rolling out devices to read and publish books to. Amazon started it off with its Kindle, Apple has taken it to the next level with the iPad and the battle continues. It will now be for more compact, yet powerful devices and Kindle has already got itself a sleeker, faster and a much better version of the ebook reader.
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The Kindle e-reader might be feeling threatened by the iPad, but lets not take the credit away from Jeff Bezos from bringing forth these handy devices to read content. The concept of Buy Once and read everywhere has made life easy and it’s not just confined to one device alone. You have the Kindle app for the iPhone, the iPad itself, Android, BlackBerry, PCs and Macs. However there has been a vacuum when it came to the Web. That might just get resolved as Amazon is set to release the Kindle Previewer for HTML5.
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How do you feel when you find something that is legally yours missing? I will be angry, to put it simply and I bet many Kindle owners were too when they found George Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm missing from their devices. Amazon deleted copies of those books from users’ Kindle library, it wasn’t any legal issue but simply that the publisher didn’t want to put those books as Kindle editions. However Amazon has made it clear that in future it will not resort to remotely deleting the copies on their own. This raises a question about ownership rights and how ownership varies between the two.
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Looks like Amazon feels that it should be a bit humble as it cuts Kindle 2 price from $359 to $299. We aren’t sure why Amazon is slashing that price (not that we aren’t glad it did)? Amazon had been generating quite a lot from the sales of the device with earnings closing in on a $100 Million, meaning that people didn’t mind paying the amount for the device. The Kindle DX is still priced at $489 and we would really want a cut in the DX’s price. As for who paid $359 for Kindle 2 a couple days back we can only sympathize with them.
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