Comments on: Remember Plastic Logic? AT&T Does. http://www.bestebookreaders.com/remember-plastic-logic-att-does/ Everything Ebooks Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:51:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Plastic Logic Strikes Big with Barnes and Nobles | K.indledhttp://www.bestebookreaders.com/remember-plastic-logic-att-does/comment-page-1/#comment-502 Plastic Logic Strikes Big with Barnes and Nobles | K.indled Tue, 28 Jul 2009 11:54:57 +0000 http://k.indled.com/?p=933#comment-502 [...] reader. Just a few days ago, we heard about the company striking a deal with at&t to provide PL Reader’s owners with wireless Internet service. The makers of Plastic Logic have understood that no device can compete with Amazon Kindle with a [...] [...] reader. Just a few days ago, we heard about the company striking a deal with at&t to provide PL Reader’s owners with wireless Internet service. The makers of Plastic Logic have understood that no device can compete with Amazon Kindle with a [...]

]]> By: cameronhttp://www.bestebookreaders.com/remember-plastic-logic-att-does/comment-page-1/#comment-501 cameron Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:34:13 +0000 http://k.indled.com/?p=933#comment-501 Here is the way to compete with the kindle.Subscription serviceOffer the device for free and you get 1 book a month & free internet for $20/month.An offer that is along these lines should be more then enough to pull heavy readers away from the Kindle. That model might also be attractive to students since they don't tend to have a lot of upfront cash to offer. Companies might also be able to justify giving these to employes to help ensure they can also get business documents that they might need.If they try to sell it for the high price that has been rumored, i don't see it making a huge dent in the market.The other thing that Amazon has going for it is the quality of the online store. It is unsurprising that amazon has the best online shopping experience i have seen. The thing that surprises me is how much better it is. I have looked at some of the other online ebook stores and, for the most part, find them to be barely passable as an e-commerce site. Amazon has made it dead simple to get an ebook from the web, iphone, or on your kindle itself. That is something that sometimes gets lost in the discussion about ereaders. Here is the way to compete with the kindle.

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Offer the device for free and you get 1 book a month & free internet for $20/month.

An offer that is along these lines should be more then enough to pull heavy readers away from the Kindle. That model might also be attractive to students since they don’t tend to have a lot of upfront cash to offer. Companies might also be able to justify giving these to employes to help ensure they can also get business documents that they might need.

If they try to sell it for the high price that has been rumored, i don’t see it making a huge dent in the market.

The other thing that Amazon has going for it is the quality of the online store. It is unsurprising that amazon has the best online shopping experience i have seen. The thing that surprises me is how much better it is. I have looked at some of the other online ebook stores and, for the most part, find them to be barely passable as an e-commerce site. Amazon has made it dead simple to get an ebook from the web, iphone, or on your kindle itself. That is something that sometimes gets lost in the discussion about ereaders.

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