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Amazon's E-Ink Kindle Sales May Have Been A Disaster Last Quarter

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    Quote Originally Posted by bookblogger:
    Yes, they have press releases. Why would they lie... er, because they sell the Kindle?
    The have probably looked at a particular segment e.g. trashy novels and highlighted the sales.

    Do they really make cash from selling hardware?
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    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:

    Do they really make cash from selling hardware?
    I don't know, but the waters are also muddied by so many kindle titles being available for free.

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    I'm not interested in starting a feud with you. I'm merely rebutting your earlier statement:

    Book sellers everywhere - from Amazon to traditional book stores are reporting ebooks outselling physical books
    which is not true.

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    No, I have sales data which I mentioned. Meanwhile, you seem to be erring further by extrapolating "Amazon" to mean "bookshops everywhere".


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    From a consumer's standpoint, Amazon is fine. But watch out if it is allowed to become the only game in town, which is its aim (reports about its anti-competitive practices are easy to find). You might say this is normal capitalism at work, but a lot of people have remarked upon Amazon as being unusually vicious in this regard, probably a reflection of its hedge fund origins, and the point I would like to make is that no consumers win from a monopoly.

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    PDF files

    Quote Originally Posted by East_coast:
    Not understanding the concept of reading is a concern.

    Perhaps it just needs putting into context for you with parralels between the old world and the new world

    Old word New World Used for
    Book Ereader Reading long texts
    Newspaper (Broadsheet) Ereader Reading long articles with charts
    Newspaper (Tabloid) Tablet Reading short articles with pictures
    Magazine Tablet Browsing light content with lots of pictures
    Calculator MS Excel For calculating things
    Typewriter MS Word For writing things
    Overhead projector MS Powerpoint For presenting things
    etc

    As you can see an ereader is not a replacement for a tablet computer.
    Can I read a PDF with a Kindle or any e-Reader, if so which one?
    Last edited by br111an; 09-05-2012 at 01:00 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by br111an:
    Can I read a PDF with a Kindle?
    Yes you can do that, but be aware of how small the screen is. PDF are better read on a table or a Kindle DX.

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    Quote Originally Posted by elle:
    Yes you can do that, but be aware of how small the screen is. PDF are better read on a table or a Kindle DX.
    Should I sit or stand on the table while doing the reading?

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    Quote Originally Posted by br111an:
    Can I read a PDF with a Kindle or any e-Reader, if so which one?
    Many e-readers can read PDF's, but they may have limits as to what they can do with them. Mine (pocketbook 360) for example can reflow the text of a pdf so that it can fit on the screen easily, but some cannot. It means that sometimes you have to page down and page down or zoom in and out to read everything, which can be rather annoying, compared to a proper ebook which nicely fills up the screen - no more, no less.

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    Quote Originally Posted by MovingIn07:
    Should I sit or stand on the table while doing the reading?
    I'd suggest you to lie down in the bathtub for the most satisfactory PDF reading experience