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To: Slumdog who wrote (18555)	3/12/2009 9:54:39 PM
From: Real Man	Respond to of 71475

At the same time huge names like GE have been absolutely killed, and roughly 1/2 of all DOW stocks trade in the teens and singles. Meanwhile, the tech "horses" are back to what, 2005-2006 levels? RIMM not even that. A couple of major technology retail chains, CompUSA and Circuit City, went bankrupt, so demand obviously does not exist, and it does not matter - these are the 4 stocks that powered NAS to 2007 highs - AAPL, GOOG, RIMM, and AMZN. An obvious bubble.

To: Slumdog who wrote (18555)	3/13/2009 2:04:50 AM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71475

A friend of mine bought the new Kindle and showed it to me last week. It is cool; easy to read; very easy to purchase books; runs over a week without a recharge; and too expensive. Newspapers (online) are poorly represented. You can't share your books (they are hardwired, through drm, to your Kindle). A very nice device, but problematic as well. I've never seen one out in public yet. It's a great PR thing, but probably adding just .00001% to Amazon's bottom line. They likely made far more money of each off of the Harry Potter releases. But the first PCs were nearly useless, too (I had one in 1980, long before MSDOS). Now they are pretty good. Handheld readers will evolve, and nearly everybody will have them. They'll be cheap and easy to use. But they are at least two generations (and DRM) away from what I'd ever buy.