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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Apple takes a bite out of Amazon…
The eBook wars are getting interesting. Apple unveiled the iPad today. It is their new tablet computer.
According to the New York Times:
“But perhaps the most significant iPad application was its own, called iBooks, an electronic bookstore that turns the iPad into a direct competitor to Amazon’s Kindle. Apple said it would sell books in the open ePub format. That conceivably means that e-books sold by Apple would also run on other devices that support ePub, like the Sony Reader and Barnes & Noble’s Nook.
Mr. Jobs said Apple has entered relationships with five major publishers — Hachette, Penguin, HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster and Macmillan — and was eager to establish relationships with others, including textbook publishers.
The announcement puts Apple on a collision course with Amazon. Mr. Jobs credited Amazon with pioneering the category with the Kindle, but said “we are going to stand on their shoulders and go a little bit farther.”
Gerry Purdy, an independent analyst who keeps a close eye on the e-reader industry, said, “Reading a book on an iPad isn’t necessarily going to be that much better — a whole lot better; it will still be in black and white. The Kindle still represents a good vehicle for people who only want an e-reader.”
He added: “Right now, it will have some effect on the Kindle market but it won’t be gigantic. There will still be people who want to buy the Kindles or the Nooks.”
Wow! Amazon has to be concerned as that Apple product tree keeps shaking out ever more techy fruit.
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Take one Apple Tablet and call me in the morning….
Vick Mickunas
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ACORNgate?
Another third rate sabotage attempt has gone bad. The Watergate break-in eventually took down the president. When news first broke about the ineptitude of those Watergate “plumbers” President Dick Nixon wasn’t very worried about it. He intended to stonewall the entire thing. We all know how that one turned out.
Now another third rate bit of political sabotage has been apparently exposed. This latest intrigue involves James O’Keefe, that same videographer who set up ACORN with a notorious bit of exposure in some videotape last year.
These clowns were allegedly attempting to install bugs on phones in the offices of a US Senator from Louisiana. One has to wonder where all this will eventually lead? And are there any Bob Woodwards or Carl Bernsteins on the case this time? Are there still investigative reporters who can get their teeth into a story and refuse to let go of it? Recall that Bob Woodward has parlayed his Watergate credentials into a long career as a best-selling author. Who wants to be famous now? Where will the trail lead? Who will be Deep Throat this time? Scramble for those sources.
Where will this ACORNgate fiasco ultimately lead? Fascinating to imagine isn’t it? I wonder who hired these jokers? For more on the story click HERE:
Vick Mickunas
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