The Kindle hardware is a red herring. Now that Amazon has realized it can sell eBooks to be read on iPad, computers, or laptops, it can concentrate on the profitable end of the business.
Will is wrong as always. While neither company is releasing sales figures, according to most experts, the Kindle has probably sold more units than the iPad. IPad might catch up by the end of the year -- or might not, with the new pricing.
I have an iPad and like it, but thanks to its nonreflective screen the Kindle is far and away a superior to iPad in terms of simply reading text. The "free" 3G everywhere makes it even more attractive, particularly at such a low price point.
And to be honest i like the iPad (as a cool toy) but it's too expensive and kinda big to use it the way I would as primarily an ebook reader.
$99 would be a good price. Take a hit on the hardware, get people into the library. It's worked well for game console makers.
Epic Fail on Kindle's part. They can't even give them away.
Id then spend a few days at piratebookbay.org or whatever and fill up that 4 gb with tons of books he'll spend the rest of his short life reading.
They purchased a company out of New York that has this and in color. Just sayin'.