Why Amazon’s Kindle Will Eventually Win the e-Book Wars (via GigaOM)

I don’t agree that Kindle will win. Amazon doesn’t have the foothold that Apple does with the love that people have of iPods/iPhones. They won’t benefit from the halo effect.

To paraphrase Yoda: Begun, the e-book wars have. Barnes & Noble (s bks) started the week off by cutting prices on its Nooke-book reader to $199 from $259, while also introducing a new, $149 Wi-Fi model. Not to be left behind, Amazon, which helped jump-start the e-book reader craze, decided to cut the price on its entry-level Kindle model to $189 from $259. The punch and counterpunch has prompted more than one watcher of the space to declare … Read More

via GigaOM

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