One interesting statistic that I can draw from my own experience:
According to my Amazon account, last year I purchased 14 books total for the year (including text books) and probably only read half. Since purchasing a Kindle in March, I've ordered 21 books for it and read all but one of them (it's in progress now). For me, the Kindle has made reading pleasurable again by removing the hassles associated with carrying around a 200+ page hardcover book. And I doubt I need to bring up the impact of instant gratification with purchases.
Unfortunately, Borders doesn't back up the iLiad in the same way as Amazon backs up the Kindle. After two months after starting to sell the device, it seems to be gone already from the shelves again, and I can't find it at the Borders webpage anymore. Furthermore, Borders never provided any content for the iLiad - and the other content available online is either free stuff for which there's no more copyright, or a limited selection of commercial e-Books that are more expensive than the paperback version at Amazon. With this half-assed support of the product, of course it's bound to fail.
the Nook Color proved it was an undercover tablet all along, Barnes and Noble has hit back with this latest Nook as proof of its focus on one thing: reading.
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One interesting statistic that I can draw from my own experience:
According to my Amazon account, last year I purchased 14 books total for the year (including text books) and probably only read half. Since purchasing a Kindle in March, I've ordered 21 books for it and read all but one of them (it's in progress now). For me, the Kindle has made reading pleasurable again by removing the hassles associated with carrying around a 200+ page hardcover book. And I doubt I need to bring up the impact of instant gratification with purchases.
Unfortunately, Borders doesn't back up the iLiad in the same way as Amazon backs up the Kindle. After two months after starting to sell the device, it seems to be gone already from the shelves again, and I can't find it at the Borders webpage anymore. Furthermore, Borders never provided any content for the iLiad - and the other content available online is either free stuff for which there's no more copyright, or a limited selection of commercial e-Books that are more expensive than the paperback version at Amazon. With this half-assed support of the product, of course it's bound to fail.