Stephen Frankola

Google: How One Wedding Video Shows YouTube's Potential

lmao

Why Apple's iTouch Tablet Will Become Its Flagship Product

gotta love the apple trolls comin out in full force

this article reaches, and badly.

Amazon's New Kindle-DX: $489 for an E-Reader?

cdwilliams, its refreshing to see your commentary. i'm a college student too and I have the same feelings... but not many people can relate. or maybe they just don't wanna hear it...

Amazon's New Kindle-DX: $489 for an E-Reader?

I agree. Compare that to the kindle specs:

www.amazon.com/Kindle-...

Amazon got into the game first, but it will be facing tough competition going forward.

Amazon's Kindle 2.5 Doesn't Seem Worth the Buzz

Phil,

Well-written comment with some good points.

However:
I don't know when was the last time that Jeff used a textbook... but I currently do, and I'm surrounded by 40,000 other kids that do. I'm sure that Amazon has done plenty of market research beyond my small anecdotal observations, but I still think they're wrong if they believe they can convince college kids to spend an extra $500 that they dont have. However, if Amazon's distribution is different - free Kindles with book purchases, university-owned Kindles, rented Kindles, etc... there might be a better chance of catching on. But if Amazon execs honestly believe that they'll sell the devices straight-up to the average (non-ivy league) college kid, they are delusional.

Considering your use-of-resources argument, sharing, reusing, and recycling traditional textbooks is pretty environmentally-stable. Not many people are willing to throw something worth $100 in the trash, and even when books can no longer be resold, both my university and independent bookstores accept books for recycling.

Amazon will continue to face tough competition in this e-reader space, with offerings like Plastic Logic's reader (www.plasticlogic.com/) challenging Amazon's dominance. I will agree that the Kindle currently is the premier player in this space, but considering the still tiny overall market, another device could unseat the current king.

My overall opinion on Amazon, once again, is that it's a great company, but the Kindle will not add meaningfully to its bottom line anytime soon.

And for any interested reader, in case Seeking Alpha doesn't post it, I published a follow up to this original post on thenobuylist.com

12 Reasons Why Amazon Should Buy Twitter

I think you're really stretching for your conclusions.

I think the culture of twitter and its users will be adverse to any type of commercializaion whatsoever.

Amazon's Kindle 2.5 Doesn't Seem Worth the Buzz

First, in the article you link too, I primarily talk up the quality of Amazon as a company while saying that the Kindle 2 is no game-changer (sentiment that I still stand by). At the end of the piece I stated that I wouldn't buy or sell AMZN shares; sure, I missed out on some upside, but I had no short position either.

In terms of your life suggestion - very cute comment. I won't make a personal reply, so enjoy your lulls.

On May 06 08:36 AM raytayzmd wrote:

> HAW!!...let's see, you wrote a similar article back in February:
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> seekingalpha.com/artic...
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> ...of course, since then the stock has doubled in price...maybe market
> analysis isn't your "forte" -- so to speak...maybe you're destiny,
> in fact, is to sell "ski wax" from your bedroom...think about it,

Why I Wouldn't Buy Amazon

Ray -
It's the Seeking Alpha editors that you can blame for that... not me.


On Apr 23 11:00 AM raytayzmd wrote:

> ...uhhh, are you simply redundant or desperate?...you posted the
> same thing under a different title just a little while ago:
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> seekingalpha.com/artic...

Amazon.com Remains Strong Despite Offending Gay Community

I totally disagree... though it should keep performing well, perfection is already priced in with the current P/E.


On Apr 13 03:20 PM Cetin Hakimoglu wrote:

> AMZN great stock. Def. see it going to 120 in the short term. It's
> immune to the over-hyped recession.

Amazon: New Kindle To Tap $5.5 Billion Textbook Market?

as a college student myself, having textbooks on kindles would be terrible. first, there's a convience and enhanced learning capability (at least in my opinion) to having a physical book to flip through and make marks in; plus, if you buy used and sell when done, textbooks aren't that expensive. i doubt kindle textbooks would be widely used at all.

(many textbooks are now becoming available online, and no one uses them.)

A Stockholder, and Merchant, Loses Confidence in eBay

Interestingly, after I returned from consuming my five-dollar foot-long, I found an email from eBay in my inbox "on behalf of Bill Cobb."

However, it was just the same automated email as before.

The service is laughable. And, from many comments posted here (and other places), this is no kind of isolated incident.

A Stockholder, and Merchant, Loses Confidence in eBay

This morning, an email from an Amazon employee was sitting in my inbox, inviting me to further discuss and expand the relationship that I already have with them (after reading this post, either here, at my website, or at one of the many other websites that have picked this article up).

eBay is silent... and I'm not expecting that to change.

Amazon, the Perfect Short?

i don't disagree, and I was short AMZN for a while. however, it was a much better candidate at $100... its a more reasonable value now.