The Original Kindle Was Crazy

The Original Kindle Was Crazy
What the design of the first popular e-book reader can teach us about innovation
Tareq Ismail
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Aug 9, 2019
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Photo courtesy of the author.When David Pogue reviewed Amazon’s original Kindle e-reader for the New York Times back in 2007, he asked a simple question: “Are they completely nuts?”
“Printed books are dirt cheap, never run out of power, and survive drops, spills, and being run over,”…
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