HammRadio Today: 1/28/2008 --
Amazon.com Kindle and the American Illiterati
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1/28/2008 6:16 PM
Byline: Mike Cunningham
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Story Summary
Steve Jobs says nobody reads anymore. The Reading public calls shenanigans. Also, Obama looks like Fred Gwynne and other observations.
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Steve Jobs says no one reads anymore. But he's probably wrong. He's going to be wrong about the Amazon.com Kindle . The book business has never been better. And even though there aren't any new Harry Potter books around, the Harry Potter generation is entering young adulthood, with expendable cash.
And that makes technology the perfect place to sucker er seduce these young readers to buy your device. That is, if you can make enough of them. And I may have discussed it before, but if you can get Colleges to offer their textbooks in this format, you will have a winning success, oh, not unlike APPLE.
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