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you've got all kinds of new entrants now in google and apple and those aren't to be to be uh scoffed at right
kendall has a few apps now they've not opened it nook says they're about to open their platform
kindle's got market share leader for sure yeah but they're they're in a tight race with the nook and then there's there's sony's been around forever and should not be discounted by any means and you've got all kinds of new entrants now in google and apple
they bought our closest competitor in 2008 a company called shelfari which they've since run into the ground
amazon doesn't feel the need to you know bend over backwards for you uh no i don't think they bend over backwards for anybody
amazon can be the place to sell books yeah we're not going for that we want to be the best book discovery engine you know the yelp for books if you owe the imdb for books
on the Kindle you can just like search for his name and then you get oh he was and it's actually sometimes faster
they realized people were reading on the iPhone and they had to get those books on the iPhone so thus they had to have an app
they have a problem with DRM... all the books sold through the Kindle are dear and protected meaning I buy it and I don't really own it
Amazon must have felt the same way because they rushed that Kindle app out like lightning... it was kind of cranky and not quite there... definitely a defensive maneuver
Amazon talks about their e Inc being all cool it doesn't impress me
I think Kindle needs to morph into the iPhone
it's kind of hard to buy a lot of books not everything's on the Kindle right not everybody has a Kindle not everybody wants to read on their iPhone
within the hour of uploading your PDF and figuring out your cover your book is in Amazon
I think a lot of people have ... out of that zone of doing it so I think a lot of people have and that's what's woring them is foot traffic to Barnes & nobl are down
if you've used Amazon's PDF conversion things yeah those look pretty bad
if you're using the official Kindle version like you bought it through Amazon they can do the formatting pretty well
the interface is far far far from perfect ... abstractly a pretty bad interface but but it works
they've solved a lot of the problems that the Sony e-Reader had
I do own a Kindle ... I had to warm up to it but I really I actually really like it now