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Newspaper News - Monday, May 4, 2009 10:19 - 0 Comments
Big Screen Kindle – What’s It For?
It’s for Textbooks
Amazon plans big screen Kindle: Textbook margins are the real aim not saving newspapers -from ZDnet
Editor in Chief of ZDNet, Larry Dignan convincingly writes that the new Big Screen Kindle’s are designed and marketed to serve the $8.6 Billion college textbook market.
It’s for Newspapers
Looking to Big-Screen E-Readers to Help Save the Daily Press -from NYTimes
“…it is Amazon, maker of the Kindle, that appears to be first in line to try throwing an electronic life preserver to old-media companies.”
We don’t know who it’s for
Will Anybody Buy The New Large-Format Kindle? -from wired
Wired is owned by Conde Nast who is owned by Advance who owns many newspapers like the Staten Island Advance and Newark Star-Ledger so this is an interesting take on the situation. Where’s the market demand?
- “People are used to reading everything on the net for free, and that’s going to have to change,” Rupert Murdoch
- News Media Innovation, Convergence and Sustainability – Interview with Don Carli
- Kindle 2 Review For Newspaper Readers
- Hearst eReader Fallout
- The Coolest Gadget I Saw At TOC 2009 – Readius
- Digital Innovation and Green Initiatives at PressDisplay.com
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