Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Bezos: No Major Changes for Kindle Anytime Soon

From CNET:
... On Tuesday at Amazon's annual shareholder meeting in Seattle, Bezos talked a bit about what to expect and what not to expect from the company's Kindle e-reader in the coming months.

First, he said the Kindle will continue to be a device intended for "serious readers," not a multipurpose device like Apple's iPad, according to The Wall Street Journal.

"There are always ways to do the job better if you are willing to focus in on one arena," he said. But he admitted that "90 percent of households are not serious reading households."

Second, Bezos said that there will be no color Kindle for a while....