Another Way to Look at the iPad vs. Kindle Debate. Last week in The Times, I reviewed the Amazon Kindle 3. It’s head and shoulders the best e-book reader on the market — at least among the ones that use an E Ink screen. In comparing the Kindle with the Apple iPad, however, I noted that Amazon’s e-book catalog has 630,000 books available — compared with only 60,000 for Apple. (Apple, for example, doesn’t have any books from Random House, the largest American publisher.) A number of readers, however, sent me notes like this one: “David: Your article makes a point that I have seen made before, and which seems to me both misleading and irrelevant. You say: ‘… just in case you were indeed considering the iPad primarily for its e-book features … the Kindle’s catalog of 630,000 current books is 10 times the size of Apple’s.’ “So what? But my readers are quite right: thanks to the Amazon and Nook apps, the size of Apple’s bookstore really shouldn’t be a factor in your buying decision.
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