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Apple’s $1.2 billion tablet?

The iTablet may not exist yet, but don’t tell Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. He’s predicting that the Cupertino Kids will sell 2 million units at $600 each in 2010 to generate $1.2 billion in revenue. This would represent a 3% gain in Apple’s total revenue for the year.

There has been much speculation about [...]

All Your Userbase Are Belong to Us

An interesting development in the small but growing field of eBooks: who owns the relationship between content and customer? Amazon clearly believes it should do so, following in the model of Apple’s iPod. Newspaper tycoon and Wall Street Journal owner Rupert Murdoch feels otherwise:

“We will not be ceding our content rights to the fine people [...]

Consumers Slowly Warming to eBooks. Slowly.

There are some interesting trends in this Forrester Research report:

Only 17% of respondants have never heard of an eBook reader in 2009. That’s down from a full 37% in 2008.
In 2008, only 21% of respondants had actually seen an eBook reader; in 2009, that figure shot up to 36%
The [...]