As the market and competition starts to catch up with Amazon.com’s Kindle, it’s no surprise to see that they expanded their E-book availability beyond the Kindle device and also lowered the cost of the devices themselves .
This week Jeff Bezos, Founder of Amazon.com, announced that Amazon’s Kindle E-Reader is about to go global. The Kindle with both U.S. and International Wireless will become available October 19th for $279.
Today marks a day on the E-Calendar that many of us have been talking about the past year. It quite literally snuck up on us overnight, but the Kindle 2 is here and became available today. With 37 reviews already (the majority posted yesterday), it’s averaging 3.5 stars with a mixture of emotions all across the board. 17 reviews give it 5 stars, 11 are stuck in the middle, and 9 give it only 1 star.
I picked up this article today from the Shelf Awareness email feed, and thought Mr. Bezo’s comment on the recent POD/Amazon controversy was interesting, although brief. The whole ordeal seems to have died down a bit, but I know it’s still in the back of our minds, or should be…
