Re: New Kindle DX introduced - is bigger better?

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Joshua Tinnin <krinklyfig () gmail com>
Date: May 7, 2009 11:33:27 AM EDT
To: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: Re: [IP] New Kindle DX introduced - is bigger better?
Reply-To: krinklyfig () gmail com

Murdoch is already talking about how this is the savior of the newspaper
industry, but what he fails to understand is that newspapers have been
popular for so long partly because they're cheap as a one-time purchase
- surprising, considering his success in the newspaper industry here and
in Aus. But even the value of the one-time purchase isn't so great when
you can just pull up the paper's website once you get to work.

Hawkers on a street corner can easily talk someone out of a quarter or
some change, but asking someone to shell out $500 to have a reusable
media source is different than asking someone to buy today's daily news
for 50 cents, and even the latter is becoming more difficult. The market
could easily be students if the textbook angle works out, though I would
hope they'd stop exorting ... excuse me, I'd hope they'd start charging
less due to reduced costs. But only fairly affluent people are going to
want to pay $500 to have a device to read the paper every day. I think
Murdoch assumes an eventual monopoly of the Kindle, because you can't
really sell the device on the idea you can get your newspaper on it (and
what affluent person is going to haul around a 10" Kindle and a laptop,
which can also be used to read online newspapers?).

I think this type of reader device has a future. I'm not convinced the
Kindle is the device we've been waiting for, especially if Amazon keeps
hiking up the features and price in an era when people are looking for
the most value.

- jt


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On Thu, May 07, 2009 at 09:43:28AM -0400, David Farber wrote:
> Begin forwarded message:
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> From: "Jonathan B Spira" <jspira () basex com>
> Date: May 7, 2009 2:17:48 AM EDT
> To: "Dave Farber" <dave () farber net>
> Subject: New Kindle DX introduced - is bigger better?
>
>
> Dave
>
> A Kindle DX costs as much as an inexpensive laptop or an expensive  
> netbook.
> Clearly neither the laptop nor netbook is as well suited for reading  
> books as
> a Kindle but they are far more versatile for many other purposes.
>
> Where will this lead? Clearly, electronic publishing in this sense  
> is coming
> but will Kindle be the preferred answer?
>
> Here is my initial take on Kindle DX - http://www.basexblog.com/2009/05/06/
> amazon-kindle-dx-is-bigger-really-better/
>
>
> Regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen/Szívélyes üdvözlet/Cordialement/ 
> Cordiali saluti
> /Saludos/Vänliga hälsningar
>
> /s/ Jonathan
>
> Jonathan B. Spira
> CEO and Chief Analyst
> Basex, Inc.
> 8 http://www.basex.com
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