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E-books are great and convienant, however, how many people actually have time to read books. However, with thes embedded video and audio, I'll be more inclined to take a look. Also would be nice if an audio book was included with the price, that would be perfect. Another great feature would be if the audio book could start from the point where you stopped reading, thus you could continue the book in the car.
 
E-books are great and convienant, however, how many people actually have time to read books. However, with thes embedded video and audio, I'll be more inclined to take a look. Also would be nice if an audio book was included with the price, that would be perfect. Another great feature would be if the audio book could start from the point where you stopped reading, thus you could continue the book in the car.[/

Maybe I am misunderstanding you but the iBook app, Kindle app, B&N app, and many others are free. I would still take a free audio book if offered though:)
 
Maybe I am misunderstanding you but the iBook app, Kindle app, B&N app, and many others are free. I would still take a free audio book if offered though:)

I assume he means including the audiobook when you buy the ebook. Would be a cool idea but I don't know if it would make sense for the publishers.
 
With the recent price reduction of the Kindle hardware, they probably have abandoned that strategy.

Not if you look at the Kindle DX. I can't believe it still costs as much as I paid for it over a year ago when the Kindle 2 has gone down in price twice in that same time frame.

Also, I find it odd that the iOS Kindle App is now more feature-capable than the actual Kindle device. Oh, well...I still like non-backlit reading better.
 
I like the iBooks interface a lot better. The only time when I use Kindle is when iBooks doesn't have the book that I want :(

I agree with you, but I bought about 8 Kindle books before iPad came out, so I don't want to ditch Kindle. I'm glad Apple is allowing the Kindle apps even though iBooks is also available. I think both can survive as providers. I don't know what the Kindle hardware's future is, but at $189 it's really tempting to get one now. I'm waiting for more stuff to get an iPad but would love a larger eReader than my iPhone 4.
 
It is odd that the iPad Kindle offers more features than the actual Kindle. It must make marketing the ebooks that contain audio/video awkward: "Buy this great book with all these extra features. Of course you can only enjoy them on the competition's hardware."

Makes you wonder if Amazon might be prepping a new Kindle that handles audio/video.
 
I am a constant ebook reader and have all if not most of the ereading apps on my pad. For Comics: Comics, Marvel, ComicRad, IDW, Star Trek, DC Comics, iVerse and Ave!Comics and I use iBooks PDF for many of my older Star Trek comics. For reading my Fictionwise collection I use Stanza and Amazon ebooks I use the Kindle app. Though I have yet to buy any of their ebooks I also have B&N, Borders, Kobo on my pad.

Before PDF came to iBooks I still have GoodReader, ReaddleDocs, BookShelfLT, CloudReader, eReader and Dropbox. I also have several readers that offer public domain books such as Free Books and Audiobooks when I want to be read to by someone that isn't a computer :D .The reason I got the iPad was to read color magazines via my Zinio account but also love getting catalogues from Pottery Barn and can't wait for JJill to make an app. I have loved my Kindle (1 and 2) over the last few years but it can not compete with something like the iPad. A stand alone ebook reader is for reading text and has great battery usage but not a media consumption device. Just as a iPad is not a computer/laptop.

Currently my Kindle2 gets little use. Since I tend to read off my own non-DRM ebook collection I tend to just convert my PDFs into EPUB using Calibre and load into iBooks/iTunes.
 
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