Amazon’s announcement of the Kindle DX on Wednesday — hot on the heels of the Kindle 2’s emergence earlier this year — appears to have injected new life into the e-reader industry, which has been languishing for about 10 years. Several newspapers have indicated they will experiment with the Kindle DX — as well as with competing devices from companies like Plastic Logic — to distribute content directly to readers. Amazon is also attacking the textbook industry, lining up publishers who account for 60 percent of that market, as partners.
One would think that someone, anyone, would have a reader besides Amazon.
Were they laughing and predicting what a folly it would be? Now they are in the works and rushing to catch up.
For now Amazon has a monopoly. Sure it will not last, but they will probably keep dominant market share, unless someone develops a Kindle Killer (which seems highly unlikely).
The newspaper industry, which is about to
Deep-6, needs to jump headfirst into the new Kindle opportunity. The problem with the Kindle is the price-way too steep. The newspapers should subsidize the cost to consumers and then sell subscriptions. A cheap Kindle would encourage people to buy it. Once they had it, they would need to do something with it so news subscriptions would flourish. This could at least temporarily salvage a flagging industry.
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Kindle Could Be the Big E-Reader That Could
Posted by: Richard Adhikari May 8, 2009 04:00 AMAmazon’s announcement of the Kindle DX on Wednesday — hot on the heels of the Kindle 2’s emergence earlier this year — appears to have injected new life into the e-reader industry, which has been languishing for about 10 years. Several newspapers have indicated they will experiment with the Kindle DX — as well as with competing devices from companies like Plastic Logic — to distribute content directly to readers. Amazon is also attacking the textbook industry, lining up publishers who account for 60 percent of that market, as partners.
Were they laughing and predicting what a folly it would be? Now they are in the works and rushing to catch up.
For now Amazon has a monopoly. Sure it will not last, but they will probably keep dominant market share, unless someone develops a Kindle Killer (which seems highly unlikely).
Deep-6, needs to jump headfirst into the new Kindle opportunity. The problem with the Kindle is the price-way too steep. The newspapers should subsidize the cost to consumers and then sell subscriptions. A cheap Kindle would encourage people to buy it. Once they had it, they would need to do something with it so news subscriptions would flourish. This could at least temporarily salvage a flagging industry.