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Monday, June 1, 2009

Books Kindle Hut

Posted by Paul Constant on Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:41 PM

Paul Collins, over at the Rumpus, notices that Amazon has just filed a patent for a small building design. Some people think this means that Amazon is going to start selling books in a brick-and-mortar bookstore, to which I say: "Ha-ha. Ha." Why would they get into personal bookselling this late in the game?

Collins suggests that it's going to be used for renting out Kindles in airports, which I think is a much more logical explanation. Amazon clearly believes in the Kindle, and lots of people I've talked to want to try one out before owning one. This could be the brief taste that's necessary to get people hooked—the one big problem with just selling the Kindle online is that there's nowhere for consumers to try them out unless they have a friend who's got one. If Collins is right, this is really smart.

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If only they'd add the internet and a media player and make it smaller so it can fit in my pocket. If I could make phone calls on it too, that'd be great.

Posted by blank12357 on June 1, 2009 at 12:46 PM

Paul just paid Amazon a compliment.

the pigs have been cleared for takeoff...

Posted by michael strangeways

on June 1, 2009 at 1:32 PM

actually ... it looks like the design that Amazon.fresh used as pickup locations for their service ... they stopped using them pretty quickly ... but the design is the same

Posted by Gordon Werner on June 1, 2009 at 1:40 PM