http://paidcontent.org/2011/09/27/419-amazons-kindle-tablet-will-be-the-first-true-media-tablet/ The economics of digital content Tue, 21 May 2013 07:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://paidcontent.org/2011/09/27/419-amazons-kindle-tablet-will-be-the-first-true-media-tablet/#comment-85449 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 06:26:49 +0000 http://paidcontent.wp.gostage.it/2011/09/27/419-amazons-kindle-tablet-will-be-the-first-true-media-tablet/#comment-85449 Amazon is basically a retailer and the Kindle made sense because it helps them sell books. A Kindle tablet with good video priced cheaply might give them an opportunity to sell other forms of media as well: video and audio sales and rentals, and magazine and newspaper subscriptions, where apple has f*cked up royally. Print publcations pretty much sucked on the monochrome kindle but could be far more interesting on a tablet. And publishers would not hesitate sticking it to apple. Amazon itself has already checked out of the App Store and instead has a web app for the ipad, just like the financial times. Amazon having an alternative platform to the ipad might encourage more publishers to develop device independent tablet web apps.

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