Tuesday, August 12, 2008 The iPod of the book world... POST A COMMENT In this rough economy, 'always great to hear about a company -- (that's not in the Oil-Biz) -- with a rock-solid-foundation in place. I got the Kindle -- (Amazon.com) -- as birthday present in June...'and I will admit to being a little put off by yet another-gadget-to-feed...'and another attempt at another e-book reader... 'however, Amazon's figured out how to make a book-reader-done-sorta-right -- (and no, I don't own stock in Amazon) -- 'apparently I'm not alone in this assessment...'as it's projected to be the hot holiday stocking stuffer this year. "Kindle will about sell 380,000 units in 2008, more than double what analyst previously projected..." -- which is good news -- for a selfish reason, because it actually means this gadget might stick around for a while. "In its first year, that's exactly how many iPods were sold," Says the Seattle PI. "Turns out the Kindle is becoming the iPod of the book world." I'm not going to sit here and do a commercial for it -- (and frankly, they don't need one)...but, I've used it since June, and thought I'd offer my three-cents: on a scale of 1-10 it ranks a solid 8 in the world of gadgets...Now, if only we can apply that same Amazon-business-model on tougher things like world peace, or that cure for Cancer... Here's a decent review: Source: Seattle PI Labels: Amazon.com, Books, Business-101, Gadgets, Kindle, News Trends, Tech, web trends posted by Henry Cruz at 4:44 AM 0 Comments: Post a Comment << Home     ARCHIVES October 2005 . November 2005 . December 2005 . August 2007 . September 2007 . October 2007 . November 2007 . December 2007 . March 2008 . April 2008 . May 2008 . June 2008 . July 2008 . August 2008 . September 2008 .