..you get the idea.

I can’t tell if it’s my feelings or my logic talking, but I can’t help hoping that the book seller will produce a more likable book reader than a company who actually seemed to benefit by paying Eminem to advertise for them. The bookseller no doubt has a more established name among fans of honest literature.
.-= AndrewJ´s last blog ..What Evil Done =-.

(Just kidding! Of course I know Troy. Thank you, Troy!)

I’m not sure if Amazon is really making the money on the ebooks right now, for many of them anyway. I could have sworn I saw a stat last week that said that Amazon is still paying the same price to publishers for e- and print editions, so they’re actually losing money on their books. (But maybe what I saw really said that the publishers have a lot of inelastic costs—marketing, editing, new author acquisition, etc.—and so they‘re the ones eating it.)

For the rest of you, Jordan and I go way back. In fact she almost named her son after me.

But seriously, with the plethora of things that the iPad will do, the only way Amazon will be able to compete is by having a “just as good” e-reader and being cheaper than the iPad. Though they do have a couple advantages. They already have an established user base. And they already have the book store that the iBookstore will always be trying to catch up to. If I were them, I would give away the Kindle with the purchase of your first 10 books. We all know that’s where the real money is made with these things.