I was playing with an iPad at a Best Buy store this past weekend. A customer was looking at another iPad. He asked the employee about the availability of books for the iPad. The Best Buy employee told the customer he could download a Kindle application for free and read all his Kindle books from Amazon on the iPad, and that books come from Amazon.
At no point did the employee talk about using the Apple book reader. I couldn't even find the icon for the book reader on the iPad I was looking at, but the Kindle application for the iPad was there. And the books looked good.
My only complaint about the iPad is the screen glare issue and I think the Kindle screen is easier on the eyes when spending significant periods of time reading.
Apple has some cool hardware, Amazon has the book reader application and book distribution. Sounds like a good match to me.
If something happened to my Kindle DX, I'd replace it with an iPad. But until then, I'm going to continue to enjoy my Kindle.
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