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Thursday, March 18, 2010

Amazon Kindle/Apple iPad showdown looming…

By Vick Mickunas | Thursday, March 18, 2010, 09:25 AM

There’s a fascinating article in the New York Times today about Amazon.com. Amazon’s Kindle eBook reader is dominating the market for electronic book reading devices right now. Since you can only purchase eBook downloads for the Kindle from Amazon.com this means that Amazon is also dominating the market for selling eBooks. But this early advantage could wither quickly. Watch out-here comes Apple.

In April the Apple iPad tablet will be released. As Apple lines up publishers to provide eBook content for the iPad the battle lines are being drawn by Amazon over eBook pricing. This is going to get rather interesting.

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