TeleRead: Bring the E-Books Home

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October 27th, 2008

Oprah and the Kindle: Two perspectives

By a TeleBlog Contributor

image “…only by eliminating DRM and making e-books cross platform compatible will the e-book really benefit from the Oprah push. An Amazon with monopolistic control over e-books will be bad for the industry and bad for the readers.” – Dear Author.

“I guess we’ll soon find out whether Winfrey is the Kindle’s golden goose. If Amazon begins spilling the beans on Kindle sales—and it has the perfect opportunity to rattle off how many units it moved over the weekend or wait a few more days to give us the first week of the Winfrey bump—you’ll know it’s a winner.” – Motley Fool.

Related: Kindle’s $50 Oprah discount: Price $309, in effect, an earlier TeleRead post.

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