Amazon has announced that it will be making 5,000 more books available for its popular e-reader device Kindle, adding to the already 120,000 downloadable titles available.
The new titles are available thanks to a recent deal struck by Amazon and the large book publisher Simon & Schuster.
At last week's BookExpo America convention, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos continued to praise the Kindle ... [ read the full article ]
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Amazon has been pushing Kindle as if it's some form of success for a long time now, and it's all false. It's a marketing job. They've even created false sell-outs of the thing. They won't provide honest sales figures, and that should be your clue.
The truth is, people don't want to purchase it at such a high price. There were pages of complaints about this, but Amazon deleted all of that (including other negative feedback complaints) one day, and the next sent out e-mails declaring it a huge success.
These things cost more than a PS3, and everyone knows it takes them about $20 or less to make. They can put all of the book titles they want on the Kindle, and I will never be interested at such crazy prices.
Not to mention that you'll likely lose your book to Data Rights Management one day.
