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Apple versus Amazon is like Ali versus Frasier. This is two evenly-matched fighters and the outcome of their battle can only benefit consumers.

This is what I’ve been hoping for: a company with the skill, vision, clarity, and competence to truly compete with Apple. It wasn’t going to be Google. It was never going to be Google. I’m grinning at the thought of how high these two companies can push each other. What a great time to be a geek and to be alive.

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Amazon Cloud Drive by Andy Ihnatko

Amazon certainly have the potential to offer a decent alternative to iOS - they have the all-important music, video and app ecosystem that’s other companies don’t.

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What do you say to Kindle users who like to read in the bathtub?

I’ll tell you what I do. I take a one-gallon Ziploc bag, and I put my Kindle in my one-gallon Ziploc bag, and it works beautifully. It’s much better than a physical book, because obviously if you put your physical book in a Ziploc bag you can’t turn the pages. But with Kindle, you can just push the buttons.

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Questions for Jeffrey P. Bezos - Book Learning - Interview - NYTimes.com

A nice little interview with Jeff Bezos about the Kindle. Great response there to people who moan about eBook readers who say “but you can’t read in the bath!”.

Pretty amazing numbers, too:

For every 100 copies of a physical book we sell, where we have the Kindle edition, we will sell 48 copies of the Kindle edition.