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Good news today for Amazon: Citi analyst Mark Mahaney predicts that the Kindle ebook reader will hit $1 billion by 2010. Mahaney has revised upward his earlier predictions regarding the Kindle, and now thinks that by year’s end Amazon will have sold 378,000 of the $359 device and that it will account for 4% of the company’s sales next year. The Kindle, thinks Mahaney, will be Amazon’s iPod.
今天对亚马逊来说是个好消息：花旗分析师马克·马哈尼(Mark Mahaney)预测Kindle电子书阅读器到2010年将达到10亿美元 。马哈尼(Mahaney)上调了他先前对Kindle的预测，现在认为到年底亚马逊将售出378,000台359美元的设备。并且明年将占公司销售额的4％。 Mahaney认为Kindle将成为亚马逊的iPod。
Mahaney is basing his estimates on the Kindle being a must-have gift his holiday and moving 150,000 units in Q4, a modest number considering holiday numbers of other hot consumer electronics devices in recent years. But as Silicon Alley Insider points out, the Kindle isn’t a 1:1 comparison to the iPod, since most people already had a library of music they could load onto their new MP3 player. With the Kindle, users must pay about $10 per book on top of the $359 price tag for the device itself. Even with game players, such as the Wii, PS3, and Xbox 360, which Mahaney also used in his comparison, many people had libraries of games from older game players that were compatible with the new version.
Mahaney将自己的估计基于Kindle是他度假的必备礼物，并在第四季度移动了15万台，考虑到近年来其他热门消费电子设备的度假数量，这一数字并不高。 但是正如Silicon Alley Insider指出的那样，Kindle与iPod并不是1：1的比较，因为大多数人已经有了可以下载到新MP3播放器上的音乐库。 使用Kindle，用户必须在每本书359美元的价格基础上，每本书支付10美元左右。 即使使用Mahaney进行比较的Wii，PS3和Xbox 360等游戏玩家，许多人还是拥有与新版本兼容的旧游戏玩家的游戏库。
What Amazon should worry about more than the higher barrier for entry, though, is that the iPhone and a potential Apple tablet could really be the ultimate eBook reader.
不过，亚马逊要担心的不仅仅是进入门槛更高，还在于iPhone和潜在的苹果平板电脑确实可能是最终的电子书阅读器。
The iPhone Apps Store has a couple of free eBook reader apps (eReader and Stanza) that are already relatively popular, as well as a paid app (BookShelf). These apps support a number of eBook formats, like PDF, txt, Plucker, and PalmDoc. Even though the iPhone comes with a monthly fee, it also comes with a phone, a full web browser, and is a viable computing platform for a ton of other types of applications including games, which could overcome the total overall cost for many people.
iPhone应用商店提供了一些相对受欢迎的免费电子书阅读器应用(eReader和Stanza)，以及付费应用(BookShelf)。 这些应用程序支持多种电子书格式，例如PDF，txt，Plucker和PalmDoc。 即使iPhone每月收取费用，它也配有电话，完整的网络浏览器，并且是适用于许多其他类型应用程序(包括游戏)的可行计算平台，这可以克服许多人的总费用。
And let’s not forget that there’s also the iPod Touch, which sells for less than the Kindle (8GB version).
而且，别忘了还有iPod Touch，它的售价低于Kindle(8GB版本)。
Prior to the launch of the app platform, a pair of iPhone eBook web applications were raking in members, and given the large libraries at sites like eBooks.com, which sell books in PDF format, theoretically the same content available on the Kindle is available on the iPhone. If Jobs and company launch a larger form factor tablet later this year and manage to keep costs down (say, under $1000), then the Kindle could be in trouble.
在启动该应用程序平台之前，有一对iPhone eBook网络应用程序广受欢迎，并且由于eBooks.com等网站上的大型图书馆(以PDF格式出售书籍)，理论上可以使用Kindle上的相同内容。在iPhone上。 如果乔布斯和公司今年晚些时候推出更大尺寸的平板电脑并设法降低成本(比如说低于1000美元)，那么Kindle可能会遇到麻烦。
Which would you rather have, a $359 eBook reader that just reads books and gets news and blog feeds? Or a $1000 tablet that can do anything your computer can do? (Of course, a low-ish cost tablet from Apple is a big if, but the $299 8GB iPod Touch already trumps the Kindle in everything but form factor — which may be a matter of personal preference).
您想买哪一种，一本359美元的电子书阅读器，它只能阅读书籍并获取新闻和博客供稿？ 还是价格为1000美元的平板电脑可以执行您的计算机可以执行的任何操作？ (当然，苹果的低价平板电脑价格不菲，但售价299美元的8GB iPod Touch在外形方面已经比Kindle胜过了，这可能是个人喜好问题)。
翻译自: https://www.sitepoint.com/will-the-iphone-kill-the-kindle/
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