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Wow. It seems like yesterday that eBooks were just becoming somewhat well known...thanks to Bezos and Jobs for nailing this major accomplishment in such a short
by ericmsimons 16y ago
Wow. It seems like yesterday that eBooks were just becoming somewhat well known...thanks to Bezos and Jobs for nailing this major accomplishment in such a short amount of time!
- jrockway 16y agoWhat did Jobs do? The Kindle was massively popular before the iPad was conceived. In fact, Jobs derided Amazon for releasing the Kindle.
- ericmsimons 16y agoThe iPad brought eBooks to ~8 million people within the past year. I may not be an Apple fanboy (I'm a PC), but the iPad is making eBooks much more common. To be clear, I'm not talking about iBooks, I'm talking about the iPad as a reading device.
- rkudeshi 16y agoKindle sales surely would've increased with or without the existence of an iPad, but I'm inclined to believe they absolutely increased faster with. Personally, I sold my Kindle after a few months because I wasn't getting enough utility out of it; after getting an iPad, I've started buying Kindle books again.