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Amazon unveils new Kindle Paperwhite and Paperwhite Signature Edition (goodereader.com)
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Amazon has just announced two new Kindle Paperwhite e-readers. Now thinner and lighter, with a 7-inch flush-front display, up to 12 weeks of battery life, adjustable warm light, and waterproofing. The Signature Edition adds aluminum, adaptive front lighting, 32GB of storage, and ad-free reading. Both will be available for purchase on October 28th 2026, with pre-orders opening soon.

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[–] 5 points 1 month ago (1 child)

Amazon is numero uno because they cornered the market with good deals early on (at a loss), built a reputation for doing this whilst waiting for competition to die (at a loss) & then raised prices and lowered expectations (gaining)

Just like Walmart did (is doing)

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 1 month ago*

    Yep. Amazon also looked ahead and planned for where the market was going.

    Amazon built its entire business around online shopping and kept pouring money into it while traditional retailers like Walmart and Barnes & Noble still treated the internet as more of a side business.

    The bookstore, Borders actually fucking handed Borders.com over to Amazon in 2001!! LMAO Then they realized their fuck up and got serious about their own digital business and e-books way too late.

    Jus like the Netflix vs Blockbuster story.

    Lemmy can hate Amazon all it wants, but Amazon saw where retail was going, bet heavily on it, and it worked.

    I think it's a lot like Lemmy in that way. Lemmy would rather bitch about new tech, than take advantage of it. Just look at the hate hard-on that Lemmy has for AI. I see a lot of Lemmy posters saying they want to be amish, and give up tech. Yet they spend all day online bitching about it. lmao

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