Kat: It's about the reader stupid
Fatazia?? Meyer?: For a long time people were in love with Amazon for the wrong reasons and afraid of Google. Amazon is this sleeping giant that wants to be a publisher. Jeff Bezos basically said he's out to destroy the business of publishers. They are working to become Apple. Kindle = iPod unless publishers take control. Amazon will have all control over prices.
Kat: I don't think Amazon cares about readers.
Kirk: I love free shipping from Amazon. Cloud computing and storage is great, but they are absolutely playing from the Apple playbook with the Kindle. Most people didn't think about eBooks until Oprah raised the Kindle. Amazon are iterating on their design.
Joe: Having the ability to have the book follow you across devices (bookworm) is something amazon doesn't have that will hurt them.
Kirk: Amazon is talking about software to let you keep your place on one Kindle on another. How many people own two Kindles? Now reading on a Kindle and then picking up an iPhone that's interesting.
Kat: a missing tag from the cloud is territory. It's a big issue.
Lisa Charters: The issue with territory started 12 years ago with amazon.com shipping books to Canada.
Kirk: If you don't work out the territory issues, there will be piracy. If the content isn't available and devices are widely available, then consumers have no other option than to use piracy. It's training people for piracy.
Kat: Google is doing what it's doing because publishers are too scared and won't work with each other, though it's getting better.
Mike: Chapter downloads on the Kindle is the killer app.
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