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Amazon V. Apple, some simple initial thoughts…

For people who might not follow this story all ready, here is a brief recap for you:
1. Amazon’s Kindle ruled the ebook market despite limited competition from a few other companies like Sony and Barns & Noble.
-It seemed that Amazon liked selling most ebooks for about $9.99 even though publishers wanted to sell ebooks [...]

Amazon Kindle now costing less, and works outside US.

I saw via Mitch Joel who saw via the Wall Street Journal that Amazon is lowering the price of the entry level Kindle to $259.00 USD. In addition to that the Kindle’s wireless fucntions will now work outside the US.
Going to Amazon.com confirmed this…
Looks like Amazon is really hoping to move [...]

An open letter to the reading public,

Dear Reading Public,
I have said this again and again, and now I’m going to say it again. I honestly don’t know why I keep saying it over and over, maybe I think that if I say it (or write it, podcast it, email it, or whatever) enough, it will sink in.
Print is [...]

Text Edit 001 (a podcast)

I’ve been out of the loop with podcasting for a bit now.  For way to long really, it is past time for me to try to podcast again.  For the past several days I’ve been thinking about what king of content I would like to podcast about, and I made a list of several subjects.
After [...]