Interesting article. I don't really agree with this statement:
Maybe too much, said Michael Norris, a senior analyst for Simba Information. "I don't think that the U.S. market can support 50 or 60 e-readers," he said, adding that he had lost count of all the current models.
The market can support it; it gives people more options, but it'll just turn into a matter of what device addresses/achieves all of the needs of the consumer. Like the model Arnie went over in class, it's like a bell curve of technological advances that we want/would like, slowly get, but that eventually ends up swamping us. We start out wanting a and b, then c, d, and e are added, which we like. By the time it hits m, n, o, and p, we're overwhelmed.
Barnes & Noble and other bidders purchased parts of Borders Group's intellectual property in an auction that raised $15.7 million. Hilco Streambank, the intellectual property valuation and disposition arm of Hilco Trading, LLC, said the auction included more than 50 rounds before the winning bidders emerged.