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paidcontent.org - 6/29/2009
Yet Another Kindle Shortage
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Amazon.com’s Kindle DX is now sold out “due to heavy customer demand” and only expected to ship in four to six weeks, according to a message on the Amazon ( NSDQ: AMZN ) website that apparently went up this week-end. If that sounds familiar it’s because the ...
newyorker.com - 6/29/2009
Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?
— newyorker.com — At a hearing on Capitol Hill in May, James Moroney, the publisher of the Dallas Morning News,... told Congress about negotiations he’d just had with the online retailer Amazon. The idea was to license his newspaper’s content to the Kindle, ... (more) Malcolm Gladwell: Is free the future?

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fastcompany.com - 6/26/2009
Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple
— fastcompany.com — To explain the present and divine the future, Amazon's founder and prognosticator-in-chief, Jeff Bezos, often turns to... the past. Fond of historical analogies, Bezos has compared the dotcom boom and bust to the 1849 gold rush, the advent of electricity ... (more) Amazon Taps Its Inner Apple

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Kindle DX sold out - again - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source
techflash.com - 6/29/2009
Kindle DX sold out - again - TechFlash: Seattle's Technology News Source
— techflash.com — For the second time in a month, Amazon.com has sold out its new electronic reader, the Kindle... DX. The online retailer's Kindle DX page now gives a 4 to 6 week wait for the device. In mid-June, the DX was briefly out of stock , but Amazon got shipments ... (more) Kindle DX sold out - again - TechFlash: Seattle's ...

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GMSV — ... the large-format version of its e-reader is sold out , with orders placed now expected to ship in four to six weeks. In this, the DX upholds the legacy of the original Kindle and the Kindle 2, both of which were out of stock for months. Amazon doesn’t release Kindle sales numbers, and on the question of whether these episodes represent unexpected demand or manipulated scarcity, the jury is still out. ...

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