Why Amazon's Kindle Is No iPod

Why Amazon's Kindle Is No iPod (AMZN) - Silicon Alley Insider: "Newsweek's Steven Levy previews Amazon's (AMZN) new $400 Kindle e-book in 4,757-word cover story. Amazon, he says, believes it has created the 'iPod of reading.' We've gotten a cursory look at the Kindle (see our first impressions here), and we like it. But Amazon's ambitions here are outsized: No matter how nifty a gadget Jeff Bezos' company has created, it won't have the same impact on publishing that Apple's iPod had on the music business."