{"id":1940,"date":"2009-05-12T08:42:28","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T13:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2009-05-12T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-12T14:02:41","slug":"strategy-or-reaction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1940","title":{"rendered":"Strategy or Reaction?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A story <a title=\"Kindle for iPhone\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/personal_tech\/iphone\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217400286\" target=\"_self\">here<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0at <strong>InformationWeek<\/strong> outlines Amazon&#8217;s Monday launch of a Kindle eBook Store tricked out for Apple&#8217;s iPhone and iPod Touch users. They declare a &#8216;mulitplatform strategy&#8217; in the article, but I&#8217;m unconvinced. Having watched Amazon&#8217;s awkward attempts to monopolize the market with delays releasing a Mobipocket Reader and Kindle Reader for iPhone, the creation of the\u00c2\u00a0Stanza App\u00c2\u00a0by disgruntled iPhone users (which Amazon later had to buy to control) and the resulting alienation of\u00c2\u00a0 iPhone\/iPod users well, I&#8217;m not sure there is any strategy or plan. Looks more like a series of reactions.<\/p>\n<p>I think\u00c2\u00a0they&#8217;re trying to make up for lost ground, <em>yah<\/em>? Still a boon for iPhone and iPod Touch users to get access to all those expensive books.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A story here\u00c2\u00a0at InformationWeek outlines Amazon&#8217;s Monday launch of a Kindle eBook Store tricked out for Apple&#8217;s iPhone and iPod Touch users. They declare a &#8216;mulitplatform strategy&#8217; in the article, but I&#8217;m unconvinced. Having watched Amazon&#8217;s awkward attempts to monopolize the market with delays releasing a Mobipocket Reader and Kindle Reader for iPhone, the creation &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=1940\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4,9,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1940"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1945,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1940\/revisions\/1945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}