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Amazon eBook pricing war: Thanks for being evil, Apple

Judi Sohn

Apparently, Amazon is now getting push back from publishers, starting with Macmillan, who want them to charge more than $9.99 Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 Now, Amazon is fighting what is essentially the same battle. for e-books. to around $15. I get that.

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Amazon eBook pricing war: Thanks for being evil, Apple

Judi Sohn

Apparently, Amazon is now getting push back from publishers, starting with Macmillan, who want them to charge more than $9.99 Macmillan, like other publishers, has asked Amazon to raise the price of electronic books from $9.99 Now, Amazon is fighting what is essentially the same battle. for e-books. to around $15. I get that.

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Looking forward to Alice Starmore

Judi Sohn

I got a $50 Amazon e-certificate, and I'm so excited over what I decided to spend it on. I picked up 2 Alice Starmore books: Fisherman's Sweaters: Twenty Exclusive Knitwear Designs for All Generations and The Celtic Collection: Twenty-Five Knitwear Designs for Men and Women. Alice Starmore is a Scottish needlework designer.

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Looks like it's time for a new iMac

Judi Sohn

My most important work files are copied to an Amazon S3 disk via JungleDisk. I won't lose one byte of data. I practice what I preach to others. My entire drive is mirrored nightly to a bootable firewire drive. I save files to DropBox now out of habit. And I have my laptop and iPhone. Or it's in the cloud.

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Looks like it's time for a new iMac

Judi Sohn

My most important work files are copied to an Amazon S3 disk via JungleDisk. I won't lose one byte of data. I practice what I preach to others. My entire drive is mirrored nightly to a bootable firewire drive. I save files to DropBox now out of habit. And I have my laptop and iPhone. Or it's in the cloud.

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The iPad will probably be a great device. Someday.

Judi Sohn

Someone like my Mom who uses her not-the-latest-and-greatest computer for email and web surfing and keeping track of her finances and buying stuff on Amazon. It's for the casual consumer. She'd love an iPad, right? And it has nothing to do with the price. Here's why I won't recommend an iPad 1.0 to my Mom: Apple needs to make up its mind.

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The iPad will probably be a great device. Someday.

Judi Sohn

Someone like my Mom who uses her not-the-latest-and-greatest computer for email and web surfing and keeping track of her finances and buying stuff on Amazon. It's for the casual consumer. She'd love an iPad, right? And it has nothing to do with the price. Here's why I won't recommend an iPad 1.0

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