TechCrunch: Why a Kindle for newspapers won’t save them
May 5th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Handy tools and technology, Newspapers
Responding to this week’s scheduled launch of a new large screen version of Amazon’s Kindle (an e-reading device), this TechCrunch post says newspapers should not pin their hopes on this new technology.
“It’s not the ‘paper’ part of newspaper that’s the problem, it’s the ‘news’,” writes MG Siegler, adding that Kindle’s new launch could do well in the textbooks market.
(A post on BNET responding to TechCrunch suggests the site hasn’t fully disclosed its own investments in a mobile computing device)
Tags: Amazon, e-reader, e-reading device, Kindle, mobile computing, mobile computing device, TechCrunch
