Amazon Unveils The “Kindle Fire”

Last Wednesday, Amazon released the Kindle Fire.

"Last Wednesday morning in New York City, Amazon will unveiled the Kindle Fire. Yes, this is the name Amazon has settled on, to help differentiate the product from the e-ink Kindles, which will still be very much alive and for sale. And while Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos will show off the Fire on stage, it won’t be ready to ship until the second week of November, we’ve learned."

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The Future Of Books: A Dystopian Timeline

Very interesting read. John Biggs takes you all the way to 2025.  Looks like 2016, the idea of a print magazine will no longer exist.

"With the launch of the Kindle Fire , I thought it would be fun to write a little bit sci-fi and imagine what the publishing market will look like in the next ten or so years. I’m a strong proponent of the ebook and, as I’ve said again and again, I love books but they’re not going to make it past this decade, at least in most of the developed world.

As we well know, ebook sales are now outpacing hardback sales and publishers are now crowing ebook numbers alongside their traditional in-store sales numbers. Soon those in-store sales numbers will dwindle and disappear simply because there will be no stores – heavy readers, the folks who buy genre fiction by the basket-full will be happy to head over to Nooks and Kindles, especially when they drop below $99 (as they will this year)." - TechCrunch

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