New Yorker article - iPad and Kindle

Publish or Perish: Can the iPad topple the Kindle, and save the book business? by Ken Auletta
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/04/26/100426fa_fact_auletta

An interesting article, with lots about publisher vs. ebook maneuverings and the differences in approaches being taken by Amazon, Apple, and Google. And, although Auletta talks about Amazon's policy of not making statistics available, he estimates there are 3 million Kindles in circulation.

Also, Auletta is having an online chat about the article on the 22nd:
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/ask/2010/04/questions-for-auletta.html

I continue to fail to understand the hype over the Kindle vs. iPad. To me, they're not competing devices. One is an ebook reader and the other is a giant touchscreen on which you can read ebooks.

Thanks for the New Yorker link, though. Reading the article now!

I enjoyed this article, as well:
Embracing The Digital Book, by Craig Mod
http://craigmod.com/journal/ebooks/

Great article! Thank you for posting it; I understand the hype now.