Tuesday, December 28, 2010

!~ Kindle : Amazon’s Bestselling Product Ever ~!

While the wannabe “iPad killers” have languished in the marketplace (or on the drawing board), the Kindle has quietly become Amazon’s number-one gadget. Is the Kindle really a competitor, or a companion?
Amazon had a very green Christmas this year, as customers flocked to the online retailer to do their holiday shopping. On Monday, the company announced that its Kindle e-reader had become Amazon’s bestselling item in is history, surpassing “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Book 7).” Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos had an interesting take on how the Kindle stack up next to the iPad: “We’re seeing that many of the people who are buying Kindles also own an LCD tablet. Customers report using their LCD tablets for games, movies, and web browsing and their Kindles for reading sessions. They report preferring Kindle for reading because it weighs less, eliminates battery anxiety with its month-long battery life, and has the advanced paper-like Pearl e-ink display that reduces eye-strain, doesn’t interfere with sleep patterns at bedtime, and works outside in direct sunlight, an important consideration especially for vacation reading. Kindle’s $139 price point is a key factor – it’s low enough that people don’t have to choose.”
In the face of the way tablets that are basically iPad clones with similar price tags have failed in the marketplace, or haven’t made it out of the gate, the success of the Kindle is especially impressive. The question is—are buyers choosing Kindle instead of iPad, or does owning one make you more likely to buy the other?
As Bezos points out, each has its own niche and the Kindle’s low price makes it possible for many users to purchase both. The Kindle has only one serious e-reader competitor, the Barnes & Noble Nook, which has recently debuted a color model, and other tech brands don’t seem to be in a hurry to put out comparable devices. OTOH, tablet computers based on the iPad are expected to flood next month’s CES. The one product that could give both the iPad and the Kindle some serious competition would be an LCD tablet with a price tag under $200—but nobody seems to be able to pull that one off yet.

!~ MagiC TriCks ~!

!~Best Books of 2010~!

Top 5 Fiction

1
Freedom by Jonathan Franzen  
Available August 31, 2010
 599 reviews (576p) (NYTimes Best of 2010) (TIME Best of 2010) (Amazon Best of 2010)
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2
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
Available June 8, 2010
 71 reviews (288p) (NYTimes Best of 2010) (TIME Best of 2010)
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3
To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Available September 21, 2010
 44 reviews (592p) (Amazon Best of 2010)
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4
The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell 
Available June 29, 2010
 159 reviews (496p) (TIME Best of 2010)
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5
The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman
Available April 6, 2010
 204 reviews (288p) (Amazon Best of 2010)
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Top 5 Nonfiction

1
The Warmth of Other Suns: The Epic Story of America’s Great Migration by Isabel Wilkerson
Available September 7, 2010
 103 reviews (480p) (NYTimes Non Best of 2010)
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2
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot
Available February 2, 2010
 410 reviews (p)
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3
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Available November 16, 2010
 54 reviews (592p) (NYTimes Non Best of 2010) (TIME Non Best of 2010)
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4
Just Kids by Patti Smith
Available January 19, 2010
 115 reviews (304p) (NBA Non finalist)
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5
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand
Available November 16, 2010
 230 reviews (496p) (TIME Non Best of 2010)
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Other Notable Fiction

Fun with Problems by Robert Stone
Available January 11, 2010
 47 reviews (208p)
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The Unnamed by Joshua Ferris 
Available January 18, 2010
 132 reviews (320p)
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Ordinary Thunderstorms by William Boyd
Available January 26, 2010
 41 reviews (416p)
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Point Omega by Don DeLillo
Available February 2, 2010
 34 reviews (128p)
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Shadow Tag by Louise Erdrich
Available February 2, 2010
 80 reviews (272p)
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Union Atlantic by Adam Haslett
Available February 9, 2010
 64 reviews (320p)
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The Surrendered by Chang-Rae Lee 
Available March 9, 2010
 52 reviews (480p)
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Beatrice & Virgil by Yann Martel
Available April 13, 2010
 136 reviews (224p)
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Parrot and Olivier in America by Peter Carey
Available April 20, 2010
 58 reviews (400p) (NBA finalist) (Booker finalist)
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The Long Song by Andrea Levy
Available April 27, 2010
 37 reviews (320p) (Booker finalist)
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Solar by Ian McEwan
Available April 27, 2010
 140 reviews (304p)
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The Lonely Polygamist by Brady Udall
Available May 3, 2010
 91 reviews (602p) (Amazon Best of 2010)
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Private Life by Jane Smiley
Available May 4, 2010
 68 reviews (336p)
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The Marrowbone Marble Company by M. Glenn Taylor
Available May 11, 2010
 15 reviews (368p)
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The Spot by David Means
Available May 25, 2010
 5 reviews (176p)
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The Passage by Justin Cronin
Available June 8, 2010
 933 reviews (784p) (TIME Best of 2010)
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Kings of the Earth by Jon Clinch
Available July 6, 2010
 41 reviews (416p)
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What Is Left the Daughter by Howard Norman
Available July 6, 2010
 33 reviews (256p)
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The Cookbook Collector by Allegra Goodman 
Available July 6, 2010
 95 reviews (416p)
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Memory Wall by Anthony Doerr 
Available July 13, 2010
 12 reviews (256p) (Amazon Best of 2010)
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Super Sad True Love Story by Gary Shteyngart  
Available July 27, 2010
 115 reviews (352p)
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How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu 
Available September 7, 2010
 69 reviews (256p) (TIME Best of 2010)
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Room by Emma Donoghue
Available September 13, 2010
 387 reviews (336p) (Booker finalist) (NYTimes Best of 2010)
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Gold Boy, Emerald Girl: Stories by Yiyun Li   
Available September 14, 2010
 3 reviews (240p)
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By Nightfall by Michael Cunningham
Available September 28, 2010
 50 reviews (256p)
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Bound by Antonya Nelson 
Available September 28, 2010
 8 reviews (240p)
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Nemesis by Philip Roth
Available October 12, 2010
 34 reviews (304p)
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Great House by Nicole Krauss  
Available October 12, 2010
 43 reviews (289p) (NBA finalist)
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How to Read the Air by Dinaw Mengestu  
Available October 14, 2010
 17 reviews (320p)
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