Hey, Jed and all,
Have you all seen the following commentary:
Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/04/amazon.free.kindle/index.html?hpt=C2
http://tinyurl.com/4catda6
Excerpt:
Last year, nearly $1 billion in e-books were sold, according to
Why Amazon would be smart to give away the Kindle
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/mobile/03/04/amazon.free.kindle/index.html?hpt=C2
http://tinyurl.com/4catda6
Additional excerpt:
According to Kelly, Bezos merely smiled and said, 'Oh, you noticed
that!' And then smiled again.
...
Make it
They already do give away Kindle readers. You can download Kindle-reader
software for any computer, PC or Mac, for free. The IPad version is also
free. It has been clear for some time that their strategy is to make
money from the books, not the hardware.
If they were to give away the Kindle
From Jed:
...
If they were to give away the Kindle hardware gadget at
this stage, I imagine the government anti-trust people
would look askance. Amazon would be giving away the gadgets
at a substantial loss, and I suppose regulators would see
that as an unfair way to squelch competing
OrionWorks - Steven V Johnson wrote:
Nevertheless, as you also stated ...at this stage. Seems to me that
it just a matter of time before products like the Kindle, or its
progeny will end up being given away for free . . .
Sure. As soon as they can demonstrate to the regulators that the cost
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