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Amazon Kindle a $750 Million iPod-Like Business By 2010 (AMZN)

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2008-05-15 10:40:00 by Henry Blodget in Silicon Alley Insider
...Kindle could contribute 3% of Amazon's overall revenue in two years, argues Citi analyst Mark Mahaney, who has a born-again relationship with the device. Combining device and book sales in an iPod/iTunes-like model, Mark says, the Kindle could add $750 million to Amazon's top line in 2010 These projections seem aggressive, in part because the...
 
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Citi: Yep, The Kindle's A Huge Hit. $1 Billion For Amazon In 2010 (AMZN)

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2008-08-11 10:56:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
...Kindle is being replaced by euphoria: Citi's Mark Mahaney, who was already bullish on the e-book reader, declares that is indeed going to be Amazon's iPod In practical terms, that means that Mahaney has gone back and revisited his original estimates from last spring . He now thinks Amazon (AMZN) will sell 378,000 units this year, double his...
 
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Amazon Adds Another 5,000 Titles To Kindle (AMZN)

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2008-05-30 18:10:00 by Eric Krangel in Silicon Alley Insider
...Kindle e-reader is making "any book, ever printed, in any language available in less than 60 seconds." While still not quite cataloguing the Library of Alexandria, the company inked an expected deal today with Simon & Schuster, a division of CBS, to add another 5,000 titles to the Kindle's reading list Despite some flaws and supply problems ,...
 
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Amazon Kindle to Replace Textbooks?

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2008-07-01 20:09:54 by Ryan in CyberNet
...Kindle e-reader . The Kindle sells for $359 by Amazon, and uses Sprints high-speed EVDO data network to let customers download new books on-the-go. The device has actually been more popular than I anticipated, and its now catching the attention of universities Being a recent college grad myself I can say that having to carry around a Kindle...
 
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Bezos: More Kindle Titles, More Kindle Titles Selling (AMZN)

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2008-07-23 18:40:00 by Michael Learmonth in Silicon Alley Insider
...Kindle e-reader , We have to guess, because Amazon doesn't give out any details about the product's performance. But today Jeff Bezos gave us the smallest morsel of info Prodded during Amazon's Q2 earnings call, he offered a single data point: Of the 140,000 titles Amazon sells in both conventional book format and Kindle's digital format,...
 
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Amazon: Kindle Isn't *That* Big A Hit; College Edition In The Works

2008-08-23 08:00:00 by Peter Kafka in Silicon Alley Insider
 
...Kindles it's sold, or how many it thinks it will sell. But it's distancing itself from blockbuster numbers thrown out by TechCrunch and Citi analyst Mark Mahaney , according to a new report McAdams Wright Ragen analyst Tim Beuneman spent time with Amazon (AMZN) managment this week and sent out a note Friday. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer...
 
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Bad News For The Kindle: iPhone 3G + Apps (AAPL, AMZN)

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2008-07-16 08:24:00 by Dan Frommer in Silicon Alley Insider
...Kindle should have a much longer battery life than the iPhone, we can read faster with our iPhone, since it isn't bogged down by Kindle's slow-loading -- and frankly, unnecessary -- monochrome E-ink The lone missing feature: The ability to buy and read new releases. We'd love to see Amazon (AMZN) take the Netflix (NFLX) approach -- make its...
 
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Amazons New Kindle will target sizable($5.5 billion)textbook market

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2008-07-18 11:15:54 by Asma Kaleem in Startup Meme
...Kindle , an e-reader has recently announced that it will be rolling out two new Kindle models in a next few months. The growing number of universities and colleges have a desperate need of a an Amazon type kindle that can support large scale of readers and scholars Report by NACS Inc . reveals the sizable number of colleges and universities...
 
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Amazons Kindle: Whats next?

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2008-08-25 11:20:47 by