Global Kindle Finally Out of the Gates!
Amazon is shaking off those dreams of market monopoly, smelling the coffee and realizing there are some real world-class competitors coming into the game with the same grand ambitions.
Yesterday Amazon started shipping a souped-up Kindle for U.S. and International adopters. Read here at Channel Web for a story about the global Kindle’s migration to one hundred countries with AT&T’s wireless network attached. With a new price of $279, the device promises to deliver an eBook to you wirelessly in 60 seconds in any one of those hundred countries.
I’m glad they’re doing it. (Even if Canada is not yet one of the hundred countries being served…)
But ubiquity doesn’t just depend on access… the price has to be right, and in a market with $199 eBook Readers, the Kindle’s $279 price tag still makes it an expensive adoption, yah?
