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Amazon Must Kill The Kindle

Posted at 12:19PM Monday 11 Jan 2010

The line of announcements on the e-book reader front, both at CES and out in the rest of the world, has become prodigious. It seems like almost every week someone comes out with a new one. And that's exactly the reason that, for the good of itself, its investors, and everyone else, Amazon should kill off its Kindle.

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