Waterstones To Sell The Kindle
"At Waterstones, we are committed to improving our bookshops quite radically to offer the best possible book buying experience. It is a truly exciting prospect to harness also the respective strengths of Waterstones and Amazon to provide a dramatically better digital reading experience for our customers.
"The best digital readers, the Kindle family, will be married to the singular pleasures of browsing a curated bookshop. With the combination of our talents we can offer the exceptional customer proposition to which we both aspire."
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Jump to unread Post a CommentThis is what he said about them in December
Daunt makes no bones about his dislike of Amazon. "They never struck me as being a sort of business in the consumer's interest. They're a ruthless, money-making devil."
Waterstones have missed a big opportunity by not offering re-badged Nooks....you can buy a kindle anywhere and people won't pay Waterstones prices
Its also strange how yesterdays observor were reporting how Daunt was saying their ebook reader would be "different from Amazon - and better"
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/20/waterstones-e-reader-strategy-james-daunt
Edited By: gari189 on May 21, 2012 09:33: edit link
As gari says why would anyone go there for one over the numerous other retailers. A nook would have at least been unique
Sony are grossly overpriced (both their ereaders and ebooks) so you can write them off. Looks like the e-ink readers will be a fight between Kobo and Amazon.