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Our Blogs The BeerFiles Is Kindle the answer or does it just raise questions? | Is Kindle the answer or does it just raise questions? |
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| Written by Stan Beer | |
| Monday, 19 November 2007 | |
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Page 1 of 2 The way people buy books today used to be the way people bought music. That of course is no longer the case. CD sales are plummeting in the wake of music downloads, led by Apple's iTunes online store and the iPod portable player, followed by a plethora of competitors. Could Bezos and Amazon succeed in disrupting the way works of prose are distributed in the same way that the music downloads industry has disrupted the way music is distributed? Perhaps but there are still too many unanswered questions to give an affirmative answer. Books are a centuries old tradition far more entrenched than music recordings. There are shelves devoted to them in family homes. They get passed down from generation to generation. First editions and signed copies from famous authors have intrinsic and often significant monetary value. Books generally don't get copied and pirated. So what makes Jeff Bezos think that his new product Kindle can be a game changer in the reading industry? |
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