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By: Why Amazon’s Kindle Will Eventually Win the e-Book Wars

Why Amazon’s Kindle Will Eventually Win the e-Book Wars — Mon, 21 Jun 2010 23:31:20 +0000

[...] I see companies such as Barnes & Noble try and diversify by building technology products, I laugh; they just don’t have the DNA. Barnes & Noble is [...]

By: blink

blink — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 01:50:51 +0000

Prime View International, like Acer, Benq, Asus, Foxconn, and other Taiwan companies DESIGN other company's products, which is why they are termed ODM (original design manufacturers). Yet writers keep saying they merely "assemble" products like laptops and cellphones like the google mytouch. Articles on the googlephone, for instance, say how the CEO of HTC agreed with Google not to brand the phone as an HTC, even though HTC designed and built it. Ditto for so many other gadgets. The Harvard Business Review even said that the Taiwanese are really outsourcing branding to bigger names like Sony and HP. Please give the Taiwanese some credit.

By: November News – books and eReaders « Kindle Review – Kindle 2 Review, Books

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 08:35:32 +0000

[...] GigaOm blogs about it, including this gem from CEO Stephen Riggio - Barnes & Noble executives remain extremely bullish on the e-book and e-book reader category. “This will be a multibillion-dollar business for Barnes & Noble,” CEO Stephen Riggio said. [...]

By: Shining new Light On nook Investment and nooks sold « Iterative Path

Shining new Light On nook Investment and nooks sold « Iterative Path — Wed, 25 Nov 2009 04:21:38 +0000

[...] the rights to e-Ink technology and makes those displays for all Kindle and Sony as well (source: GigaOm). To guarantee capacity B&N may have had to invest or at least cover part of the assembly line. [...]