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How much do you want to bet against apple releasing a 10.6 inch portable device in 2010?

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Yup there sure are.

How many can do more than read a book and how many have deals with publishers?

Don't get one then. Choice is wonderful.

I don't think it will be a phone at all, but I think it may offer 3G insto-on like that nokia little lap top. Hence the telco subsidy. Possibly. Or not.

Good point. When I was right out of high school in 1989 I worked at Radio Shack for about a year and a half. We then sold cell phones. There were two phone available. One big hand held and one that I called the tank phone because it had a huge batter pack and was meant to slide into a bracket in your car. The phones cost $1000-$1500 and the service was around 50cents a minute for ever minute you talked. Now, 20 years later everyone has a cell phone. These phones can do more than the computer I had growing up and are an amazing part of everyday life.

I do think eventually print will die, but it won't happen until the devices that replace them are so cheap that just about anyone can afford it. Sub $300 is a good price, but there are millions who won't buy them and still will shell out a couple of bucks for a magazine. It is the future, no doubt about it and if I were a publisher of books or magazines I would be putting a lot of effort into that type of stuff, but until the devices cost around $50 I can't see them destroying the print market just yet.

LOL - Imagine if that thought process had been applied to photographs, TV, cinema. Ha ha.

Life has moved on from colour pictures being something interesting, Tim. People used to be freaked out about stereo too.

If you really think adding poor quality colour to a mono kindle will be the tipping point, well, I am afraid there isn't going to be a career as a futurologist for ya :)

When will there at least be some galleries...

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That's pretty sick.

You may find that people always shall want to read a newspaper or a magazine and not look at an electrical product. However, as I said, for the enviroment, It may be best.

Why do you feel you have to be so sarcastic to everyone?



Im glad you could be a man and appologize to ShellyCrash, However, I think you could find that its you that has always been a little hasty or rude to others also. Just my thoughts :2 cents:

I'm still sad.....

Who would have thought that adding poor quality colour to a B&W TV would be a tipping point...!

Imagining that a hand help device such as a Kindle could only be used as a book reader, is the same as imagining that a mobile phone could only be used for making phone calls.

That is really cool of you to say. Thanks man. :thumbsup

Very cool

Wow this excellent i haven't hear of it before!!

I was very impressed in the part when you can play games guessing what will happen in the live game!

Hope Playboys do it too!!!

Why do you think you can tell if someone has AIDS by looking at them?

I think people that work with technology for a living overestimate how different the general public is... Yes, the Ipod took off, but before that everyone had a portable CD player, portable cassette player... it wasn't a new product, just a better product.

People who read books like books. I really don't see the cost of a device, in addition to the cost of a book that you don't actually get to own, winning over people who read.

Hell most the books and magazines I read I read because I can't or won't have an electronic device with me... It's sort of a non compete product. The Kindle is cool and all, but anywhere I'd bring one I'd just bring my netbook, otherwise I'll take a disposable used paperback or a magazine. Apple making a slightly more expensive and trendy version of it will not wipe out print media.

:2 cents:

8 years ago I had a badass 10" sony vaio. I still think it was a better unit than my current netbook.

that demo is jaw dropping

Not sure what your point is? That technology evolved? Yes it did. That people work with technology are ahead of the masses? Yes they are. Can't see anyone suggesting otherwise.

I am saying that when Apple release this rumoured tablet thing AND strike a deal with all the publishers and do an iTunes Book/Mag store, a tipping point may be reached, just like when they launched the iPod in tandem with the iTunes music store.

Many technologies never find life among consumers. The flying car and computers that converse with their owners have both failed to appear in the mainstream (although for different reasons).

However, ebooks do not appear to be in this category. As of May 2009, ebooks account for 35% of Amazon's book sales (when the ebook is available). This is why Barnes and Noble invested so much money and prestige in their own e-reader this autumn (the nook).

And this is BEFORE the tipping point has been approached.

Who is suggesting that is going to happen?

I said that a device will come out AND a book/mag version of the iTunes Music Store. Those two things in tandem is what will make us reach the tipping point. Just like it did for music sales.

anybody got the new issue with topless tara reid?

And I said that I disagreed :)

Would you like to make a bet?

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The apple device is launching soon. The publishers are all loving the deal apple is putting to them. The publishers are all REALLY pissed off with Amazon, and their deal.

I give it till September next year.

20 bucks or a blowjob from a crack whore in Amsterdam WMA next year says I'm right.

great video thank you

My girl reads an average of 3 books per month. When I was trying to feel her out whether she liked the Kindle (potential xmas gift) she basically shot it down in every way possible.

Going to a book store is therapeutic. Walking up and down the aisles. Looking for books, getting a coffee, taking "her" time. She loves it. She isn't interested in stopping that practice.

She loves the smell of books, and curling up with a good computer just isn't the same.

She never wants a computer to buy books on.

Now, for me...... bring that sucker on. I would subscribe to 20 magazines if I had that demo I just saw. Easily.

I agree with many here that print will never succumb. What I think will happen, for what it's worth is, readerships will grow because people like me who won't buy books WILL in fact buy the computers/tablets that are coming because we're tech geeks, and we have to have it, and we still have the desire to be informed and entertained.

:2 cents:

melange :thumbsup:thumbsup