Okay, okay, okay... Give it +3 points. The +97 others go to iPad...:p
Okay, okay, okay... Give it +3 points. The +97 others go to iPad...:p
...if the iPad was marketed as a ereader, then I'd see their point. I would buy an kindle if I needed one, much the same as I have an ipod and my iPad... Sure, I can listen to music on my iPad, but it's not really the point of it.
The ONLY thing Amazon offers in terms of books in an electronic edition are in the Kindle format. These can be read on an actual Kindle device (well, duh!) or the Kindle app on an Apple mobile device or on your computer with the Kindle for PC program.
Since no one but a Kindle user would ever buy a Kindle-formatted book, I would have to say that everyone pays the same price.
This is exactly why the iPad is the most flexible eReader out there... not being tied to a single format.
Significant number of initial press after the ipad came out said it was a kindle killer. A lot of people I have talked to think it is better than kindle for reading books. A fair number of people on this board think that the ipad is better for reading than kindle. That is a perception. (I happen to think it is a wrong perception, but that perception is why Amazon has to directly address it.)
This is exactly why the iPad is the most flexible eReader out there... not being tied to a single format.[/QUOTE]
I am not going to expressly disagree with you. If you want to shop at a number of different stores and don't mind reading in different apps depending on the book, then the ipad is more flexible.
But Amazon has the largest single store. Virtually everything available in ebook is on the Amazon store and 95% of the time when I have looked Amazon has been cheapest or the same price.
But I still think it is all a moot point if you don't like reading on the ipad (which I don't.)
I still think, having used both, that the kindle is easier on my eyes and I have much less eye strain using the kindle than I do reading a book on the iPad. That may be just me, but I'm guessing it's not.
Chris
It's clever, yet to me look kind of desperate.