Is iPad the Kindle Killer?

Currently, this sector of the small electronics business is dominated by the Kindle, a thin, tablet like e-book reader and a multimedia device offered by Amazon Inc. Despite practically inventing this fledgling electronics niche, Amazon is truly facing stiff competition from Apple, taking into account their dominance of the small hand held touch screen device business by their iPhone product.

As the two prepare to face off in what is already being anticipated is the electronics battlefield for 2010, the gadget buying public is scrambling to discover what makes the Apple iPad a better choice than the Amazon Kindle. Exploring some of the iPad features and comparing them to the Kindle will shed some more light on this hot topic:

Web Browsing - the Apple iPad comes equipped with the computer giant's already popular Safari web browser. This alone makes the iPad the stronger device as the Kindle features a minimal browser at best, not to mention one that can compete with Safari.

Email -Reading electronic mail is another impressive feature that the iPad bests the Kindle in. Most impressively, Apple has integrated a feature-rich e-mail client that supports an on-screen, QWERTY touch pad, as well as the ability to manipulate e-mail in portrait or landscape view. Unfortunately the Kindle doesn't feature an e-mail client.

Photos - With its 1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 pixels per inch (ppi) display capabilities, the iPad can deliver photos with crystal-clear precision. In fact, the iPad can be used as an impressive digital photo album, displaying all of your best photographs. The Amazon Kindle can handle photographs, but only in black and white resolution.

Video - The large, oversized display screen can handle the showing of high definition movies, music videos, YouTube and of course podcasts. The iPad is a truly take it with you movie solution. The Kindle does not support motion video at this time.

iPOD/iTUNES - The iPad is the perfect device to import multimedia from either your iPod or iTunes account. Any music that you've purchased via iTunes is easily transferred over to your new tablet device. The Kindle does feature the ability to play MP3 tunes but fails to compare with the feature-rich music studio that the iPad boasts.

iBOOKS - Perhaps one of the main components of a thin, tablet like multimedia device is its ability to deliver outstanding literary choices for its user. The iPad does a great job of providing a wide variety of books and publications. This is perhaps the one area that the Amazon Kindle still maintains a degree of superiority over at the iPad, as its book selection and deliverability is slightly better.

App Store - The iPad makes adding additional applications simple with its built-in app store. This is yet another feature that makes the Apple offering a more robust piece of personal electronics, as adding additional features to the Kindle is yet to be supported.

Storage - yet another area where the iPad defeats the Kindle hands-down is the amount of storage space made available. The Kindle offers a modest 4 GB of storage, as compared to a basic 16 GB made available by the iPad. Additionally, Apple makes it possible to have as much as 32 GB internal or 64 GB with a flash drive.

Both devices do a great job of integrating the latest technologies and connectivity. Both integrate wi-fi and 3G Internet browsing. This is one area where the both perform equally well and definitely over deliver and their promises in this category.

Frantz Gerald
Editor in Chief
http://www.wegotyourblack.com

Selling A Self-Published Kindle Book Requires A Killer Strategy To Drive Traffic To Your Kindle Site

I don't care how brilliant your new Kindle ebook is. It won't sell itself. If you have recently published a Kindle book, you may have already discovered that sales are slow, or nonexistent.

What you need to do is start actively marketing them. In this article, I am going to discuss just one strategy, but which actually combines a couple of different ways to bring attention to your Kindle books. So let's get started.

The first thing you need to do is create a "Fan Page" on Facebook, dedicated to your book. It's easy to do. If you already have personal Facebook page, just go there and do the necessary clicking to set up a Fan Page. It's easy. If you don't know how to do it, just go to the "Help Center," which you will find under the "Account" menu in the upper right hand corner of your Facebook page.

The Fan Page alone will start drawing attention to your Kindle book. The key is to build as many members as possible by getting large numbers of people to "Like" your page. But once your Fan Page is up and running, there are many ways you can leverage it to drive even more traffic to your Kindle books, and sell them.

One way I have recently discovered combines the power of Facebook with a feature on Amazon. Kindle authors can and should create a profile page on Amazon. On this page you can do a variety of things, including write your own book reviews.

The great thing about writing book reviews is that Amazon allows you to put a live link into your review as long as that link connects to something selling on Amazon. That link, of course, should be a direct click over to your book. So every time you write a review of someone else's book, you are creating a little ad and plug for your own book.

And now the Facebook Fan Page connection. Once your book reviews are on display on your Amazon profile page, post a link on your Facebook Fan Page, directing your Fan Page members to go read your book reviews! How simple as easy it that?

So what you are doing is leveraging the Amazon profile site to create free "ads" and links to your Kindle books, and then you are driving traffic to your Amazon book reviews with your Fan Page.

It's just one more way to make things start happening for your Kindle publishing career. The key is to drive traffic and attention to your Kindle books in as many ways as you can. This Amazon-Facebook strategy is just one more weapon in your arsenal! The more book reviews you write, the more traffic you get. Make sure that you write high quality book reviews that are enjoyable to read, and really help the reader understand what the book is about, and what you think is good or bad about the book. Provide content with high value! When you provide readers with good quality writing and content, you build credibility and increase traffic, and win repeat traffic and customers.

This is my Facebook Fanpage where you will find tons more information on expanding the limits of your mind and intellectual capabilities, and also where you will find topics that will invite you to think outside the box... sometimes WAY out side the box!

Kindle Fire Tablet Comparison - Is It Really the iPad Killer?

Tablets have become the latest "must have" gadget to own, and for good reason. They are light-weight, extremely portable, easy to use and visually awesome!

The Amazon Kindle Fire hopes to appeal to both new and established tablet owners. The Fire has already pre-sold an estimated 250,000 units in just the first five days of being launched. Evaluated against other well-known tablets, Fire is holding its own.

With so many tablets available on the market, let's do a Kindle Fire Tablet comparison.

How Does The Fire Stack Up Against The Other Tablets?

The most well-known tablet by far is the Apple iPad. So for this report we'll focus on how Fire compares specifically to the iPad. It should be noted that coming in a close second are tablets running Google's Android operating system. This is important to note as Fire also runs on the Android Platform.

How Fire Compares To The iPad Visually

iPad has a large 10 inch display compared to Fire's 7 inch display Recent rumors suggest Amazon will be selling a 10 inch version of Fire just in time for the holiday season. Both are easy to navigate and both offer users stunning screen resolution. Of course, when it comes to streaming video Fire has an advantage. iPad does not support flash...Kindle Fire does. Many games and video on the web require flash in order to be played or viewed.

Compared To The iPad How Does Fire Stack Up When It Comes To Features?

When it comes to "cool features and the wow factor" so far nobody surpasses the Apple iPad. But with consumers trying to save money wherever they can these days, they are willing to go without a few extra features if it means cost savings.

The Fire does not have a camera or the ability to do video chats. You can with the iPad. Another, feature is the iPad's ability to connect using 3G. The Fire does not have 3G capability, you must have access to a wi-fi network in order to get online.

User Experience And Content

Compared to iPad the Kindle Fire tablet is very easy to use. Even first time tablet owners will find the interface intuitive and easy to figure out.

Both Fire and iPad give users access to an almost unlimited amount of content. Fire of course gives users access to Amazon.com's e-books, movies, television shows and games. Both give users thousands of apps as well.

Kindle Fire vs Apple's iPad When It Comes To Price

Price is clearly where Amazon's Fire beats Apple's iPad by a couple of miles! Fire is priced at $199.00. The iPad is priced between $499.00 and $699.00. Any way you look at it, that's a huge advantage when it comes to consumers. The economy has many tightening their purse strings. But the appetite for new innovative technology seems to be healthy in spite of the economy. There's no denying that $199.00 price tag makes the Kindle Fire a really "hot" buy. (Sorry couldn't resist that!)

So there you have it. The Kindle Fire compared to the iPad could be an excellent choice depending on whether or not certain features are a must have for you. If you prefer the "extras" from iPad and don't mind the much higher price tag, then maybe that's a better option.

But if cost is the deciding factor for you, and you can do without some of the frills offered by the iPad... based on the Kindle Fire Tablet comparison shown here...Fire wins hands down!

The Kindle Fire won't be available until November 15th, but you can pre-order from Amazon. Judging on the high number of pre-orders already made, Kindle Fire could turn out to be one of the biggest most sought after items this holiday season.

Marc Goode, who resides in Chicago, IL, is a writer and researcher. When he's not writing he enjoys biking, travel, tennis, ethnic restaurants, and the Chicago Cubs. You can read his Kindle Fire Tablet reviews and Kindle Fire Tablet comparisons at his blog.

The Apple Tablet - A Kindle Killer?

So, there's lots of talk going around these days about the forthcoming Apple tablet (notice I'm not speculating here, I do believe the tablet is coming), and whether it will be seen as a Kindle killer, or any other ebook reader, for that matter. I, for one, don't expect it to kill the Kindle. Kindle already has an established user base, and I don't see all of those buyers abandoning their Kindle just because Apple is releasing a new tablet. But will an Apple tablet eat away at the Kindle market share? That's another story.

Let's look at it this way. The Kindle has been around for a few years now, and when it first came out, well, it was pretty darn expensive. OK, so it wasn't like buying a new car, but it was pretty expensive for an item that's sole purpose was for reading books. At that point, it was mostly people with disposable income and techies who were your main buyers. Since then the Kindle has been growing in popularity, and is even now being used on some college campuses as a replacement for all those bulky (and expensive) textbooks. Imagine having all of your textbooks with you at once, and not having it mean you're carrying an extra 20 pounds in your backpack. That's a pretty nice feature. To top it off, Amazon touts the Kindle as the number one item gifted on their website to other people this past holiday season. That's a lot of people with a Kindle already. (We don't know that actual number of Kindles sold, as Amazon doesn't release that info)

We can see that the Kindle already has some marks in the win column, and like a good sports team, I don't expect it to go from greatness to wallowing in defeat in one season. But that doesn't mean they won't suffer some losses. When the Apple tablet (and other tablets, lets face it) are released, one huge leg up they will have on the Kindle will be the fact that for a few hundred dollars more, you get a device that can do WAY more than just read ebooks. Too me, that's a huge selling point. I, personally, don't have a Kindle, but I do have the Kindle software for my iPhone, and I love using it to read books. Sure, the pages are smaller, but for the most part, that doesn't bother me. Because I can read in the dark without a book light, and my iPhone can do a LOT more than just read books, and you can get it for less money than a Kindle. Of course, there is the service contract for the phone part, but you can also get an iPod Touch and put Kindle software on it for less than the cost of a Kindle, and you've still got a device that can do a lot more. I love that added value, as then I get a lot more for my buck.

Now, let's take all that's great about the iPhone, and make it bigger and more powerful, and you'll have the Apple Tablet. It will read e-books, but it can also help usher in a new era of digital publishing. Imagine reading a book and having it embedded with video clips, full color pictures and the ability to post tweets from within the book. Or reading the latest Sports Illustrated with video highlights from the games of the week, or for the stories. Now add in the fact that it will do that and then some, and now you're looking at some serious competition for not only the kindle, but laptops and netbooks.

If Amazon is smart about it, they won't try to fight the tablets, but instead, embrace them. Take their whole e-book business to another level and add features that the Kindle can't do. Make Kindle software available for tablets, and now you've just increased your customer base. Sure, they may not be buying your hardware, but they are still buying books from you. Market the Kindle as a low cost ebook reader, but also embrace those who will spend the extra money on a tablet. If they want to survive in the long run, they'll need to adapt to a world that keeps moving forward in technology, and not expect the status quo to remain indefinitely. The Kindle will survive, but it won't emerge unscathed. The time has come for the tablet computer, and it will be one heck of a ride.

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