Unboxed: Amazon Kindle 2 gets iPod treatment. Will it sell?
Fri, Feb 27th, 2009
Amazon's second generation of its Kindle ebook reader takes cues from Apple in hopes to make the new product the "iPod of books." Here's a graphical tour of how close Amazon comes to replicating the iPod experience.
A much smaller box
Compared to the giant box that the original Kindle came in, the Kindle 2 ships in a tiny package the size of a textbook. To slim down, Amazon dropped the large hard-bound book volume case it shipped with the original model.
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Topics: Ipod, Amazon Kindle, Ebook Reader, Ceo Jeff Bezos
