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The battle brewing between Apple and Amazon keeps heating up. First, Amazon took aim at Apple’s iTunes market share with its Digital Download service. Now, Apple CEO Steve Jobs has fired a shot across the bow at Amazon’s next-generation e-book reader: “I’m sure there will always be dedicated devices, and they may have a few advantages [...] Is anyone surprised by these findings? While I own a Kindle, I acknowledge I am one of the few geeky souls out there who does, and that price is probably the reason: What we found was that the price points for how most consumers value eReaders is shockingly low–for most segments, between $50 and $99. (Currently, [...] 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 [...] 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 [...]
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. |
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