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News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC

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Tags: Kindle Economics, One Laptop Per Child project, Adobe Systems Inc., Intel Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-11-17

Kindle Economics

Kindle EconomicsMainstreamI own a kindle and I love it. However, at it's current price point it is only appropriate for a) people who read tons of books and can justify the purchase I know of very few people who read so avidly or b) people with a lot of disposable...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Notebooks, Fermi, Kindle Economics, laptop computer

Discussion threads 2008-11-16

Additional Resources

E-reader devices: The fun is just starting

The interest in e-readers, or e-books as they are called now, has reached a fever pitch. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos fields nothing but Kindle questions at the company's  shareholder meeting. Prime View picks up E Ink, the company that supplies the screen to Amazon's Kindle, for $215 million. And companies...

Tags: Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Sarah Rotman Epps, E-books, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-06-02

Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle

Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger KindlePart of the mythis that the costs of textbooks will go down dramatically because cost of reproduction publishing will go down. When in fact, the actual cost of the paper, printing and binding are minor costs in the production of the textbooks....

Tags: Monitors & displays, profit margin

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Smaller profit margins will slow adoption of larger Kindle

I read a great article this morning in InformationWeek. It didn't focus on any of my concerns with the Kindle DX (high cost, black and white screen, lack of WiFi, closed standards, DRM, etc.). Rather, it went to the heart of educational content for the device: ...what...

Tags: Profit Margin, Textbook, Textbook Publisher, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Benefits, Open Source, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-05-08

Foxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbook

Foxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbookFoxconn may have contract to manufacture Apple netbookLook on the bright side, if they use a Foxconn motherboard you won't be able to run linux on it. The purchase of one of these will depend on price. Remember that Apple is...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, Apple Inc., netbook, Apple Netbook, Apple Macintosh

Discussion threads 2009-04-20

The "Me Too" Kindle 2 Review

Amazon's Kindle 2 is sleek, stylish, and has a crisp and easy-on-the eyes "electronic ink" display. But it only does one thing -- read books. After all the relatively hostile things I have said about Amazon's Kindle e-book reader in the past, I...

Tags: Device, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Amazon Kindle 2, Anathem, Tablets, Handhelds, Smart Phones, Wiki, E-mail, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-04-07

Kindlenomics Zero: When e-Texts have no entry cost

Amazon's release of the Kindle for iPhone application today had me thinking about the economics of e-Texts again. Back in November of last year, I ran the numbers on how much money you could save by using electronic versions of books versus dead-tree equivalents, using two...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Entry, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Microsoft Excel, E-books, Microsoft Office, Hardware, Office Suites, Software, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-04

All Kindles Should be Virtual

Kindle books can now be purchased directly from Amazon.com on a PC or Mac using a standard web browser, and read on an iPhone, without actually owning a Kindle device. Why not take it to the next logical step -- read it on anything? (Click photo...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Amazon Kindle, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Linux, E-books, Desktops, Handhelds, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Personal Technology, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Kindle's identity crisis [video]

ZDNet senior editor Sam Diaz briefs correspondent Sumi Das on the newest version of Amazon's electronic reader: what's changed, what hasn't, and just what exactly the online giant is trying to achieve with Kindle 2. [video=267660] More reading: Kindle 2.0: Give...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Are you ready to pay for news stories?

Last year I wrote that quality news cannot continue to be free. This year, a lot of people seem to agree. News is not a commodity, it just seems that way because it has been offered for free. News releases press releases or social media releases are...

Tags: New York Times Co., Business Model, News, Internet, Strategy, Management, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2009-02-11

Why did Amazon downplay the most important part of Kindle 2?

Amid all of the hullaballoo about Amazon's Kindle 2--the cheesy Stephen King novella, a thinner design and software improvements--the most important feature was reduced to 51 words in a press release. Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos glossed over this feature in probably fewer words. That feature is called...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Advertising & Promotion, Wireless And Mobility, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-10

News to know: Goldman's IT; Kindle 2; Google; Microsoft

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily .  For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Calculating Risk: Panning for gold in Goldman's 'gut' Whitepaper: How IT helped Goldman Sachs step back...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Information Technology, Dana Blankenhorn, Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp., Amazon Kindle, Strategy, Corporate Communications, Mortgages, Telecom & Utilities, Management, Marketing, Finance, Capital Structures, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-02-10

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve JobsI might actually get oneThe Kindle could be a lot more, but for an avid reader, it is a nice tool. And it's not just books. I'm a fan of the NY Times...

Tags: E-books, Kindle Economics 2, Kindle 1.0, Jeff Bezos, Amazon.com Inc., Steve Jobs, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-02-09

Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos presents the Kindle 2 to a packed auditorium. What sort of product rollout does this remind you of? So the Kindle 2 has now made its debut, with everything you'd expect of a gee-whiz product launch -- a packed auditorium filled with media types, a...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, 3G, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Google Books adds 1.5 million titles to iPhone, iPod touch, Android

Google announced today that more than 1.5 million public domain books in the U.S. (and more than half a million outside the U.S.) are now available on the Apple iPhone, Apple iPod touch and Google Android devices, including the T-Mobile G1. Just go to http://books.google.com/m in your...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Mobile, Books, Apple iPod Touch, Amazon Kindle, Optical Character Recognition, Mobile Browser, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2009-02-06

Why Amazon needs Kindle 2.0

Kindle-mania has arrived this holiday season -- but will it stay for good? In a recent article on Forbes.com, Andy Greenberg writes that Amazon's next e-reader won't be a game-changer, but it will keep killing the competition -- and that's why Amazon needn't upgrade its fabled gadget....

Tags: Sony Corp., Apple iPod, Amazon.com Inc., Kindle-mania, Greenberg, Kindle, Digital Music, Digital Media, Wireless, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Andrew Nusca

Blog posts 2008-12-02

News to know: Intel, Adobe; Kindle economics; OLPC

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Mary Jo Foley: New update of Microsoft codename tracker available now Larry Dignan: Intel launches Core i7; Who’s buying? Paul Murphy: How Intel's Nehalem...

Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Apple iPhone, Enterprise Software, Intel Corp., Larry Dignan, Management, Middleware, One Laptop Per Child Project, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), SOA, Software, Strategy, Web Services

Blog posts 2008-11-17

Kindle Economics

A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...

Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-16

Going paperless...Are we really saving money?

Going paperless...Are we really saving money?As an educator...my opinion carriers a bit of weight due to living in the trenches with the students. Although the idea of a PDA type device to carry textbook information is both logical and practical in an ideal world. The world of education...

Tags: Worksheets

Discussion threads 2008-11-14