Posted on 12 March 2010 by Dan Cohen
While Judie, Larry and I were ordering our iPads earlier today, Carly was watching Amazon.com. She was curious what, if anything, Amazon might do in response to the iPad’s pre-order going live. This was especially the case since it turns out the iPad does something awesome for eBooks.
Turn it from portrait to landscape and… bam… you get two facing pages- just like the “dead tree edition”.
Carly’s comment, “I sure hope this puts a fire under Amazon for the next Kindle.”
Well that got me thinking. I did some research and… discovered that Amazon.com got an order shortly after the iPad went online from none other than the big guy himself.
For a peek into what might be going on at Amazon.com’s head office check out this exclusive picture…
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Dan Cohen - who has written 1268 posts on Gear Diary.
Having a father who was heavily involved in early laser and fiber-optical research, Dan grew up surrounded by technology and gadgets. Dan’s father brought home one of the very first video games when he was young and Dan remembers seeing a “pre-release” touchtone phone. (When he asked his father what the “#” and “*” buttons were his dad said, “Some day, far in the future, we’ll have some use for them.”)
Technology seemed to be in Dan’s blood but at some point he took a different path and ended up in the clergy. His passion for technology and gadgets never left him.
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haha!!! that is classic.