Kindle Link Love – 10/24/2008
Our weekly run-down of Kindle related news stories from the web, as always we begin with the Kindle quote of the week.
Kindle quote of the week
The ease of use resulting from Kindle’s integrated business model is a powerful source of competitive advantage. While Amazon has been tight-lipped about Kindle sales, estimates suggest that it has sold more than 250,000 devices, a solid number for a new product with no mass-market advertising, particularly given the margins Amazon must be making on Kindle books. Analysts project that Kindle could be a $1 billion business by 2010.
The broader lesson in this analysis lies in a false belief that the root of competitive advantage lies in technological performance. Great technology can help, but the business model–how a company makes money, how it creates its offering, where it sells its offering and so on–is the hidden secret of many disruptive success stories.
by Forbes
Big Media, Newspapers and Magazines
Kindle Killer? – Forbes
Why Amazon Could Power Through – Forbes
Reading with Kindle – Entertainment Weekly
Amazon delays UK launch of Kindle – Telegraph.co.uk
E-books: Granite School Board a fan of Amazon Kindle device – The Salt Lake Tribune
Books 2.0: How do I love thee? Let me read the ways – The Vancouver Sun
E-readers wow at fair, but face tough competition – Reuters
Amazon’s UK Launch Of Kindle Delayed – CBS News
Network woes delay Amazon Kindle in the UK – Seattle Tech Report – Seattle Post-Intelligencer
E-ink disappointments: Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, iRex 1000 – Dallas News
Online News Networks
Amazon Kindle: It’s not for us, Jack – ZDNet
Book industry cautiously optimistic about the Kindle, electronic books – CrunchGear
Sorry, Brits, No Amazon Kindles For Christmas – Silicon Ally Insider
E-Reader Kindle Worth Good Look; Some nifty features, but buyers may want to wait for an Amazon upgrade – Content Agenda
Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together – ZDNet
E-Reader Kindle Worth Good Look – Investors Business Daily
Blogs
Seeing Is Believing…Again – Kindleville
No New Kindle Until 2009: Amazon; Company Lowers Guidance – Syber News
Working Out With A Kindle – Go Green With a Kindle
An Honest Complaint About Kindle – k.indled
Kindle Web Browser – Kindleville
Libraries – Close, But… – Stickman Daily
Using Amazon DTP and Kindle to reach new audiences – TeleRead
Kindle launch in UK delayed ’till after Christmas – TeleRead
Kindle Questions: Can you read a Kindle in the dark? – Light My Kindle
European Publishers Gear Up for Brave New World of E-Books – DW-World
How the Kindle and Its Kin Will Reduce Book Sales – Publishing Frontier
Your Blog E-book – Thank You Amazon Kindle – Highfade
Impressions of the Amazon Kindle – Evil, as in Dr.
Kindle Electronic Book Reader – The Future of Books? – Great Opportunities Online
Me and my books – BY THE BAYOU
Community Forums Discussions
My PRS 505 for your Kindle – MobileRead forums
Kindle Store Science Fiction & Fantasy Scorecard – MobileRead forums
Indeed the Kindle is the iPhone of e-Ink Reading Devices…Soooo, – MobileRead forums
What would you like to see in a firmware update? – MobileRead forums
Right “next page” button – Kindle Korner Yahoo Discussion Group
Kindle on Flickr
We end with an interesting Kindle picture on Flickr;
This image was taken by nydiscovery
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